Search on for sermons about the meaning of Obama’s election
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- January
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Do you expect your pastor or rabbi to deliver a powerful and “lasting” sermon on the meaning of Obama’s election during inauguration week?
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress will be collecting video and audio recordings of sermons, as well as written transcripts.
According to the Center:
Congregations and groups interested in contributing to this once-in-a-lifetime documentary project are asked to record sermons and orations delivered during Inauguration Week 2009 and donate them to the Library of Congress. The donated recordings will be preserved at the American Folklife Center in order to enhance the nation’s historical record and preserve the voices of religious leaders and other orators for researchers and scholars of the future. After being processed by archivists, the collection will be made available to scholars, students and the general public. In addition, copies of collected materials may also be deposited at the National Museum of African American History & Culture at the Smithsonian Institution so that they may reach as wide an audience as possible.
The center is interested in sermons that will be delivered between Friday, January 16 and Sunday, January 25, 2009. So sermons delivered for Martin Luther King Day will count.
All submissions must be postmarked by February 27 and must be accompanied by signed release forms and a completed information form—found on the center’s website.
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