[JenB]

No, not Pernese. Too Eastern in shape.

We have been seriously spoiled by Really Good Preaching - which is why we drive an hour to church. I used to have the habit of not paiyng attention in sermons, but I've lost it since we started this church. I know it's bad but... well... sitting there for forty-five minutes of preaching and thinking, "I could be doing this, I could be doing that" is a really bad attitude for church.

The thirty minutes of singing, prayers, etc doesn't quite make up. Why couldn't we have the really terrific guy instead of the really adequate one?

[Fedora]

45 minutes is an awful long sermon. But usually even a really bad sermon raises a topic which I can find interesting enough to daydream about. Or if not sometimes I will just take the opportunity to practice meditating--can always think about breathing if there's nothing else to do.