Everyone’s favorite faux small-town philosopher, Garrison Keillor, was at the National Cathedral in Washington recently, doing what he does: wry humor with a liberal sprinkling of sarcasm and Lutheran piety. Anyway, it was pretty funny, as this Religion & Ethics Newsweekly video shows.

Money quote: “They believed in forgiveness in theory, but in practice it was, of course, it was of course more difficult, and living in a small town, they knew much too much about you to be merciful sometimes. But they loved, they loved the King James. They loved Scripture. They loved old hymns. They wouldn’t have belonged in the praise churches today, where people gather in big gymnasiums, and they hold their hands up over their heads, and they sing what we call 7-Eleven songs, where you sing seven words 11 times.”