I Speak for the Trees - Earth Day Sermon
Several people asked me if I would post my sermon from this past Sunday online. I post it with some reluctance, because I think it won't hold up on paper as well. It's a performance piece -- part of what made it so well received, I believe, came from the surprise of it, and the novelty of having the entire sermon in verse. Once you have a chance to think about the fact that rhymed "lightbulbs" with "entitled" -- a rhyme so slanted it falls over -- you might think twice about my poetic ability. And the meter is certainly a bit forced in multiple locations. Actually, it's just completely uneven throughout. But it was great fun to do, and something I've been wanting to try for a long time. It's hard work to write an entire sermon in verse, because it is such a long piece when written that way. I found that I had to write much more than I usually write in prose, because the rhyme and meter keep me reading it at a pretty good clip. What I