It’s time to recognize the best sermons about God’s Creation.  Submit your best ecologically-themed sermon of 2016 for a chance to win a copy of my book, Creation-Crisis Preaching, and to have your sermon published on my blog: www.ecopreacher.blogspot.com.  Here are the guidelines for submission:

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Eligibility:

• Sermon must have been preached in calendar year 2016.

• Preacher must be a resident of the United States.

• Age limit: None

• One submission per person

• Sermon manuscript required (see below for instructions)

• No purchase required

• Submission must include the following statement: 

  • I hereby state that this submission is my own work and not plagiarized from any other source.

 

Sermons will be judged on the following criteria:

• Sermon clearly addresses a care-of-Creation issue (climate change, pollution, species extinction, extreme energy extraction, etc.).

• Sermon frames the Creation-care issue within a faith context.

• Sermons connecting the environmental issue with a social justice issue (hunger, eco-racism, health, poverty, refugees, etc.) are encouraged.

• Sermon is creative, engaging, and compelling to the listener.

• Sermon utilizes strategies for effective introduction, transitions and conclusion.

• The writing is clear and precise. Writer uses good word choice, proper syntax and rhetorical cohesiveness.

• The writing conforms to accepted rules of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. All primary and secondary sources are properly cited.

 

Instructions for submission: 

Send the sermon as a Word document (.doc or .docx).  The heading on the first page should include:

• Your name

• Your contact info

  • Mailing address [where the book should be sent if yours is the winning submission]

  • Email

  • Phone

• Name of church or site where sermon was preached, including name of town/city

• Date sermon was preached

• Statement of copyright (e.g. Copyright 2016, Leah D. Schade)

• Submission must include the following statement:  I hereby state that this submission is my own work and not plagiarized from any other source.

• Submission must include the following statement:  I hereby give permission for this work to be published online at www.ecopreacher.blogspot.com.  I understand that I retain all rights to this work.

• If there is video or audio of the sermon, include the link in your submission.

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Email your submission to:

The Rev. Dr. Leah Schade:  lschade@lextheo.edu

Submissions are due no later than January 15 at midnight EST.

Winner will be announced by January 31.

Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology and the Pulpit is valued at $29.99.  Prize includes free shipping within the continental United States.

Already have the book?  If you win, you can give your prize to another budding “ecopreacher”!