Pulpits and Politics

Robert Schmidt Editor’s Note: Robert Schmidt has taught theology and political science at Concordia University in Portland. He has also taught homiletics in the Lutheran Seminary in Nigeria and in the Lay-Assistant Program of the Northwest District, LCMS. “Should I say something in my sermon?” The political issues and the religious values behind them are…
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Twin Towers of Babel and Confusion

Babel and Trump Rev. Eugene Brueggemann   Ancient history in the Book of Genesis records the attempt of the people in the Near East to build a city and a tower “with its top in the heavens,” by which they would “make a name for ourselves.” They didn’t get a building permit from God, the…
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