communication, appeal also to our ears. Sound returns to learning. This is what Ong means when he calls our world secondarily oral. In Thinking in Story, I responded to this changed communication situation by offering one proposal for preaching in a postliterate age. One does not have to be a genius to figure out that the classic three-point, idea-based sermon, which communicated well to a dominantly literate audience, will not work as well with a postliterate audience. My proposal was that we go