{"id":65332,"date":"2024-10-24T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=65332"},"modified":"2024-11-24T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T20:56:29","slug":"preaching-the-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/preaching-the-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching and the Political, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This post continues the&nbsp;<\/em>Obsculta<em>&nbsp;Preaching Series, sponsored by the&nbsp;<\/em>Obsculta&nbsp;<em>Preaching Initiative at Saint John\u2019s School of Theology and Seminary. In these posts, our authors engage a variety of ways in which scripture, preaching, and liturgical worship interact with the life of the faithful.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CIMG0438-300x400.jpg?crop=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CIMG0438-300x400.jpg?crop=1 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CIMG0438-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CIMG0438-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CIMG0438-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CIMG0438-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CIMG0438.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the United States we are in the last days of a presidential election season. For those of us who are Roman Catholic or in churches keeping a similar liturgical calendar and lectionary cycle, we are in the last weeks of the ordinary time or season of the church year. The convergence invites reflection on the nature and function\u2014and thus, content\u2014of the homily in these last weeks of the church year, and in this particular year. What has preaching to do with the political?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Preaching. Political. Each term is fraught with a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2018\/11\/politics-of-political\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=cWKEjwgcvcKrVDN_G09Xu_5Ga5j9LIGgnYfH1Ts7p50-1729613304-1.0.1.1-waC9l7BOkLB6xA4Lsxdd84GI1eoPFs2LsAKVW04krEA\">range of meanings<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/preach\">positive<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/us\/dictionary\/english-thesaurus\/preach-at-someone#:~:text=Definition,words%20she%20didn't%20understand\">negative<\/a>), a range of emotions\u2014and not surprisingly so. For each entails power, power basically understood as the ability to realize a desired goal, a defined good. Power is thereby contextual, relational, and personal. The identity of the good is never a given but, rather, is formed amidst social bodies, wherein the \u201cbuy in\u201d among the members is crucial to its realization. Words, preeminently yet in concert with other symbolic forms, are crucial in the exercise and negotiation of power. To say words are essential to the political is an understatement. This is no less true for Christianity, a faith grounded on the word of God, \u201cliving and active, sharper than any two-edged sword\u201d (Heb. 4:12, NRSV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a democratic society, such as the United States, church and state comprise two social bodies, among others, overlapping in the Venn diagram of each Christian\u2019s life. They overlap and yet must officially be kept separate in the public sphere. The U.S. constitutional separation of church and state directly affects the content the preacher may speak in exercising the ministry of the word in the context of the liturgical assembly. Obedience to two types of authority\u2014state and church\u2014are in play. Preachers must prepare their homilies with both in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The intersection of the governmental body and the ecclesial body is sharply pronounced through the powers of government and finance, should a given church wish to retain tax exempt status.&nbsp;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/charities-non-profits\/charitable-organizations\/restriction-of-political-campaign-intervention-by-section-501c3-tax-exempt-organizations\">Internal Revenue Code<\/a> strictly prohibits any tax-exempt organization \u201cfrom directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate,\u201d including by \u201cpublic statements of position (verbal or written).\u201d Permissible, nonetheless, are \u201cactivities intended to encourage people to participate in the electoral process,\u201d so long as they do not have \u201cthe effect of favoring a candidate or group of candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authority to which the preacher answers in the church is the very word of God. Most fundamentally, that is the Word Incarnate, whose mission, in the power of the Spirit, has a church, a sacramental body witnessing, by word and deed, to the divine vision for the world: the reign of God. Every Sunday the Risen Christ empowers the members of his body for that witness through his presence in the assembled body, the presiding minister, the proclaimed word, and the shared sacrament. Therein lies not only the authority but also liturgical nature of the preaching, whose proper form is the homily, which \u201cshould draw its content mainly from scriptural and liturgical sources\u201d (<em>Sacrosanctum concilium<\/em>, 53.2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This present essay serves as a brief theological introduction to two further ones, wherein I shall attempt to demonstrate how the homilist\u2014responsible to the word, liturgy, and assembly\u2014may approach the duty of preaching in this liturgical but also political season. <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/preaching-and-the-political-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Th<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/preaching-and-the-political-part-2\/\">e first<\/a>, for the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (Nov. 3<sup>rd<\/sup>) will be close to Election Day (Nov. 5<sup>th<\/sup>). <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/preaching-and-the-political-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The second<\/a>, for the Feast of Christ the King (Nov. 24<sup>th<\/sup>) will come in the wake of the elections, a period that nonetheless will no doubt witness citizens\u2019 strong thoughts and emotions in the wake\u2014or possible contestation\u2014of the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUCE MORRILL &#8212; Preaching. 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