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Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog
A few of our friends; Raewynne, Beth, and Mike are putting
together a book proposal. They are Episcopal priests and huge
U2 fans.
They are looking to gather submissions for _Get Up Off
Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog_, a collection of
sermons which draw on the music of U2. U2 material may be
used from any era, any tour; they want your ZooTV sermons
as much as your All That You Can’t Leave Behind or October
ones (maybe more!) Also, please keep in mind that this is
not a book trying to prove anything about U2 themselves, but
a book of examples of how religious leaders are integrating
spiritually informed pop culture into their proclamation of
the Gospel.
You need not be ordained to submit a sermon, but they expect
the material to reflect the experience level of regular preachers
who are skilled at engaging responsibly with contemporary
media. You may submit more than one sermon, though it is unlikely
more than one per preacher will actually be used. Sermons
must be in a form that is readable as prose to people without
the actual CD or video at hand.
Please submit
your sermon to us in .rtf format as an attachment to an
email, which should have the subject line U2 SERMON. Give
your sermon a title, indicate at the top the Bible passage(s)
and/or lectionary occasion on which the sermon was based,
and list the U2 song(s) you use.
At the bottom of the sermon, include a biography of yourself
not to exceed 100 words, as well as your full contact information,
which should also appear in your email.
The deadline for submitting a sermon is **December 15th,
the third Sunday of Advent 2002. **
All submissions are subject to editing. They hope to inform
you sometime early in 2003 if they will be able to include
your work. They have made initial contact with a publisher
but do not yet have any guarantees. Their current plan is
that all royalties from this book will be donated to one of
U2’s charities.
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