SERMON DIGEST SERVICE

    The Internet already presents more UU sermons
than any one person could reasonably be expected to read.
At last count, the Cyber-Sermon Registry linked 10,000 UU sermons:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-SERNET.html

    This illustrates a phenomenon common to the Internet:
Too many words, too little focus.  

    This free Sermon Digest Service hopes to be one small step
toward making UU sermons more accessible to the users of the Interent.

    Authors of full-length sermons (or similar discourses)
are invited to propose their sermons to be distributed
by the First UU Church of the Internet.  

    These proposals themselves are very short
—about half a page of writing
which could include a synopsis of the sermon
and/or an outline.  

    The members of FUUCI
select the next Cyber-Sermon-of-the-Month
on the basis of these synopses and outlines.

    Then the author of the winning proposal
transforms the written or spoken sermon
into a screen-friendly cyber-sermon.  

    Then editorial suggestions (if any are needed)
will be provided by the webmaster, James Park.
This editorial help will not attempt to control the content of the Cyber-Sermon.
Any suggestions will focus on helping the cyber-sermon
to communicate better on the members' computer screens.

    The most important of these requirements is length:
Cyber-sermons may only be three pages long.

    These sermon-digest versions
will be the primary format presented to the members.

    But authors may choose to provide links
to the full-length versions of their winning cyber-sermons,
in case any readers on the Internet
want to see the more expansive versions.  

    Winning authors are also encouraged to provide links
to their other sermons on the Interent
and to any other websites or blogs that might interest readers.


Created July 14, 2002; revised 1-17-2009

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