What can you do about bad preaching? I wondered about that recently, after hearing from two different priests, from two different corners of the country, who expressed frustration at deacons whose homilies in their estimation just aren’t up to snuff. “It was dismal,” one pastor wrote about his deacon’s homily. “He preached, as always, far too long, vaguely. It was frustrating…” After outlining a litany of problems, from “flat delivery” to “lack of any real insight,” he raised an interesting... Read more