My wife, Amy, and I are both on the pastor-as-mercenary list with a couple of the local funeral homes, and the phone is a-ringing. What folks offer as an honorarium for our services won't pay the mortgage but is too good to turn down when you're paying two college tuitions. More surprising than the willingness to pay actual money for a hired pray-er, however, is that all these pastor-less people still think that when you're getting “hatched, matched, or dispatched,” you need one!