Preaching
As a "preachers kid" who experienced a preachers life (46 years in ministry) throughout eastern and south eastern Ohio, I've seen years of variations on this. It really is not only a regional term but a generational term that is seldom heard today. In my experience I most often heard people refer to my father as "Reverend Pyle" except for the time spent as a Captain in the Salvation Army. The time I most often heard my father addressed as "Preacher" was from people who would have been considered my father's elders (generational). I often heard "Going to preaching" in the 50's and early 60's in my life, and it just meant going to church. Times have certainly changed, becoming more informal. Never hear 'Reverend' anymore (as least in Protestant circles), being replaced by the more informal "Pastor." I suspect that "Preacher" and "preaching" is more often heard in the south today. Paul Pyle Quiet Sam ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
Preaching
As was mentioned by others, preaching was a term that was used to differentiate the sermon portion of Sunday morning services from Sunday school. Today the more commonly used term is worship service, but that didn't seem to gain popularity until the last 20 years or so. Preaching is probably used more frequently in the south. Sonya Palmer ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
Re: Going to preaching
>>>So, perhaps this is what Andy meant by "going to preaching." Maybe in his >>>boyhood they went to church every Sunday but didn't have preaching every >>>Sunday. Any thoughts?<<< Paul, that's interesting. I hadn't ever thought about it that way. I just always assumed it was a regional expression. Thelma Lou (Janet) ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
Preaching
I grew up in a small town, Tunkhannock Pennsylvania we walked to the Church for services and the children went to Sunday School at 10:00 and the adults went to Preaching at 11:00 of course you could go to both but if you were only going to the 11:00 service you said you were going to Preaching as opposed to Sunday School. John 3:16 Thelma Anderson ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
Preaching
Regarding Paul's comments about "preaching". In Opie's Newspaper episode when Andy went looking for the gossip newspaper at Reverend Tucker's, Andy called the Reverend "Preacher" three times. -- Ken Anderson The Mayberry Guru 2906 May Street Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54701 www.themayberryguru.com www.mayberryreflections.com ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
RE: Going to preaching
I always found it a bit odd that Andy referred to church services as "preaching." For example, in Sermon for Today, when Aunt Bee is talking to Clara on the phone, Andy asks her, "I'm goin' to preachin'. You comin'?" Maybe this is a Southern expression. I've never heard it outside of TAGS --- Growing up in NC in the 60s, we occasionally referred to church as "preaching" so I never thought much about it. It doesn't necessarily mean that it wasn't an every Sunday thing. Don "dry as dust" Good ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
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Paul Mulik, I'm from a little bit further south than Mt. Airy and I've been going to preaching all my life. Matter of fact, I went yesterday. It comes from the fact there were 2 elements to a Sunday morning service. First, you had Sunday School followed by preaching. dan --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.wbmutbb.com/
names of actors and preaching
HI GANG!! *sigh** Rule 2, Rule 2..Thanks to Aunt Bee in Orlando and others who have expressed what I have put off for several hours in writing. I get up at 4:30am, go in at 5 and get off and 1pm, and one of the things I look forward to when I get home is logging into the bulletin board. One thing I will not put up with however, is being PREACHED at on here in attempt to show your intellectual superiority.. I think most lovers of TAGS know their characters by the characters name, so referring to them in that manner is really cool, and at least they are talking about our favorite show in that fashion and shouldn't have to go do a bunch of research to make it politically correct. This is not the place for soap boxes, leave that on the shelves in the store. Like I said, when I read that at 1:15 this afternoon I was so mad I purposely put off replying until I cooled off. Same goes with the complaints about TVland, we've sung that song and dance before and they WILL show our show again. If we don't like their other shows, don't watch and leave it at that. This board is no place for venting those feelings. Now to the business at hand, TAGS is shown here everyday on WTTV, Channel 4 in Indy at 8am, two episodes. They showed the one today where Opie got the job at the store and then lied to get fired to help out the other boy who needed to pay bills. A great message in that show and example of the compassion Opie had for others. TAGS really had the best writers of any show in those days! Have a great day folks and lets talk TAGS and leaving the dry as dust preaching to Rev. Tucker!! Mike Peacock Connersville In ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
