From the outset, accordingly, the church has always been a wordy community dedicated to passing along from one generation to the next the word of God, and to expanding the circle of those given opportunity to consider the claim that “Christ is risen!” Among the many forms in which the divine word is communicated by human words, preaching is unique and remains viable, even essential today amidst a context revolutionized by twenty-first-century technology. Reading collections of sermons from different