Each person, including the bishop, was asked to record a live sermon, and the six tapes were sent to the whole group for listening before the gathering.
I've written several times about the gulf between Roman Catholic leaders at the top and the nuns, priests and laity who often live the Sermon on the Mount at the grass roots.
Mr. Khalid's fame soared over the past month when the Saudi-owned ART satellite network broadcast each of his nightly Ramadan sermons live, bringing him into living rooms across the Arab world, Australia, Canada and Europe.
Linda is living the sermon I preach in some version every Sunday at Middle Collegiate Church in New York; the one my parents preached to me daily at our kitchen table.
It also was a fixture on Qatar state television which broadcasted his Friday prayer sermons live.
Aaron took me through the Korean and Vietnamese convention rooms where children in spectacular national dress played on iPads as their parents and grandparents sat in groups listening to live translations of the sermons.
Women pray upstairs, and watch the imam deliver his sermon by live video.
He baptized hundreds of Sioux and other Indians, taught the Bible, held Masses, preached sermons, and lived a humble, righteous, and useful life.
Recently, at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Sheikh Abdul-Rahman al-Sudais gave a sermon, broadcast live, in which he prayed to Allah to "terminate" Jews, "the scum of humanity, the rats of the world, prophet killers, pigs, and monkeys".
In his sermon broadcast live on radio nationwide, Rafsanjani reprimanded the clerical leadership for not listening to the controversy over the election, which was declared a victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in results that Mousavi's supporters say were fraudulent.
