Word for Today - June 11, 2009

homiletic - HOM-eh-LET-ik - the art of preaching or writing sermons

Example: "One can only hope that the clergyman is homile tic - most don't size up to those like 19th century Phillips Brooks, who, for example, proclaimed in one of his homilies, 'Do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.'"