Hauerwas on American preaching

Preaching does not aspire to truthful proclamation in America. Preaching becomes an edifying narration of examples, a ready recital of the preachers own religious experience, which are not of course assigned any positive binding character. I always say, any time you hear a methodist minister say "... as I just learned from my twelve year old", you can be sure you up for some bullshit.

Burke Lecture - Stanley Hauerwas