I am wondering today why I linked Stephen Cherry's sermon particularly. I think it wasnt so much the annunciation as such but the way in which he integrates poetry into his sermon, less as supplement more as substance. He turns his sermon into a poem: old concepts of what a sermon is supposed to be are broken and reinvented. What he says about 'Under Milkwood' also struck a chord because I too remember driving along listening to this radio play and being totally rivetted by it. He says "And they (works of art) stop us in our tracks precisely because we do not see them coming." (his underlining).