A sermon is more than a lecture. It's also a ritual. Simply showing up = participation.
Both lectures and sermons educate (speaker to audience). But sermons also *create common knowledge*, i.e., that certain values are accepted.
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Corollary: Sermons suffer more than lectures when moving IRL to YouTube.
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@KevinSimler the fact that moocs are struggling to take off suggests classrooms are more ritual than education, too. - 4 more replies
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