<html><head><base href="x-msg://66/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" link="#000066" bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#990000" vlink="#444464"><table width="528" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td width="10"><br></td><td width="518" valign="top"><table width="518" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr class="bgc2"><td width="518" style="padding-top: 11px; padding-right: 11px; padding-bottom: 11px; padding-left: 11px; "><p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#CC6633" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br></b></span></font>Please forward this to the Europe list - Bishop Pierre<br><br><font face="Times New Roman,Times,Serif" size="-1" color="#666666"><strong>OPINION<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong></font> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font face="Times New Roman,Times,Serif" color="#000000" size="-1">| August 08, 2010</font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><font face="Times New Roman,Times,Serif" color="#000066" size="+1"><strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/opinion/08macdonald.html?emc=eta1">Op-Ed Contributor: Congregations Gone Wild<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></strong></font><br><font face="Times New Roman,Times,Serif" color="#000000" size="-1">By G. JEFFREY MacDONALD</font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><font face="Times New Roman,Times,Serif" color="#000000">The unspoken reason why American clergy are burned out is that their congregations want sermons that entertain rather than offer moral counsel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></font></p></td></tr><tr><td background="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/apps/emailthis/dot_horz.gif" width="4" height="1" alt="" border="0"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/spacer.gif" width="5" height="1"></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="518" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="11"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/spacer.gif" width="11" height="1" alt=""></td><td width="507" class="small" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><table width="507" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="518" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" bgcolor="#DBDBDB"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt=""></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/spacer.gif" width="1" height="10" alt=""></td></tr><tr><td width="398" class="footer" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/copyright.html" class="footer" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); ">Copyright 2010<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a> <a href="http://www.nytco.com/" class="footer" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); ">The New York Times Company</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>|<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/privacy.html" class="footer" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); ">Privacy Policy</a></td><td width="120" valign="top" align="right"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/spacer.gif" width="1" height="19 " alt=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img src="http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_remote.html?type=noscript&page=emailthis.nytimes.com/openrate&posall=Bottom1&pos=Bottom1&query=qstring&keywords=" height="0" width="0" alt=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>