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Dean John Downey of the Cathedral of St. Paul in Erie, Pennsylvania, is a student in Seabury's DMin in Preaching program. Here he talks about why better preaching matters.

If anyone had suggested that listening to so many preachers in one day could be exciting, let alone interesting, I might have questioned their sanity. That was before the DMin in Preaching program. Having just completed my first summer residency in the ACTS program that Seabury participates in, I can’t wait to go back to Chicago and hear more sermons.

“It gives people an excuse to really be honest about what in the sermon moved them and what didn’t and to challenge the preacher’s assumptions” Brian Baker says. “My precious brilliant bits maybe weren’t as brilliant as I thought. And the stuff I felt I maybe should leave on the cutting room floor really moved people.”