So you thought American Idol contestants were under a lot of pressure. How would you like to be in the pulpit on Christmas Eve?
Hundreds of ministers in the Washington region will face packed churches tonight when they preach one of their most important, and challenging, sermons of the year as Christians gather to celebrate Christmas.
“I think it’s one of the hardest services to preach,” said Bishop John Bryson Chane of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, who will face a standing-room-only crowd of 3,800 — many of whom rarely step into a church except at Christmastime — at the 6 p.m. Christmas Eve service at Washington National Cathedral.
Read it all in The Washington Post.