Preaching and Politics: Engagement without Compromise

Today's culture war raises questions about pulpit ministry; the answers to which are often assumed but rarely thought through.

Drawing on his transatlantic studies of both politics and theology, scholar-pastor Tim Trumper weighs the various homiletical approaches to political engagement. In doing so, he eschews the predominant apolitical and party-political tendencies of the day, preferring a mediating biblical-political approach that upholds the sanctity of the preacher's calling and the e...