A call for entries: Contest for sermons and photos

Geez magazine wants words (and photos) that are too hot, too happy, too whatever for the church to handle — yet still need to be said. There’s $2400 in prize money.

Words – 30 Sermons You’d Never Hear in Church
Images – Holy Moly Photo Contest

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30 Sermons You’d Never Hear in Church

The pews are filled, the preacher is out of town, and the pulpit is all yours. You step up to the old wooden bulwark. Everyone is quiet. You’ve been rehearsing this in your mind for years. You pause, steady your voice, let a slight smirk spread across your lips, and begin. . . .

Here’s your chance to pound the pulpit. In a world of super-powered faith, extremist religion, extremely commercialized church and atheist resurgence what word shall be spoken to the faithful? In a world of polarization, energy addiction, disparity and restless souls, what word do the faithful have for the rest of humanity?

Whether you’re an amateur prophet, ranting atheist, wily Buddhist, social gospel evangelist, caring shepherd of the flock or a bona-fide preacher with something too hot for Sunday morning, Geez issue 10 is your soap box.

You’ve got 750 words to exhort, inspire, pontificate, dream, console, convert, instruct, encourage, admonish or beseech. If you wish, suggest a brief lectionary reading–Biblical or other–to accompany your sermon.

Prizes: First: $500 Second: $400 Third: $300
We’ll publish winners and a selection of runners-up in Geez Summer ’08 issue, 30 Sermons You’d Never Hear in Church.

Deadline: March 31, 2008

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Holy Moly Photo Contest

We want your best photos from the fringes of faith and the front lines of social change. Think: holy mischief, holy grit, holy kitsch, or just plain holy. Remember that in Geez there’s room for reverence and irreverence, from both within and beyond the realm of Christendom.

Winning photos, and a selection of runners-up, will appear in our Summer ’08 issue: “30 Sermons You’d Never Hear in Church.”

Prizes:
First: $500 Second: $400 Third: $300
We’ll publish winners and a selection of runners-up in the Geez Summer ’08 issue.

Deadline: March 31, 2008

Entry Details