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I had planned on writing a blog on preaching for this week. In one of those happy coincidences–serendipity, as I have written about earlier–an added dimension to my thought was raised by my good Presbyterian colleague, Brady Seeley.

Pastor Seeley and I are working on a training program for lay visitors. In our conversation, Pastor Seeley mentioned his own training in homiletics (preaching).

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His class used as a text book Design for Preaching. I knew the book at once, for it was used in my homiletics class. It was written by H. Grady Davis, Professor of Functional Theology at the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary in Maywood, Illinois.

It was the book that transformed preaching in the 20th century. Even though it was first published in , it continues to influence preaching today.

I had the great good fortune to take the last class that Grady Davis taught before his death, “Ethnic Backgrounds of Liturgical Music.” The course had little to do with that title, but it didn’t mat