Forget prayer, America needs the use of logic and civilized discourse! So do preachers. What if preachers actually honestly engage the culture instead of cry "martyr"? Ringside meets The Craft of Preaching with special guest Dr. Ben Haupt.

Topics:

Chaos of communication! Rules of engagement for the preacher and polarized topics.
Forming God's people to interact with a hostile world with exploratory thought.
Can a preacher talk politics from the pulpit? Biased preaching
Tertullian fun: tackling polarization
Church proclaiming to society

Guest:

Dr. Ben Haupt

Associate Provost at Concordia Seminary St. Louis

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

The Craft of Preaching and Ringside Preachers and The Jagged Word

Music:

Willing Virginia - In the Arms of the King on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Canterbury Tales, Chaucer

Anatol Rapoport Rules to criticize constructively

Penn: The Gift of a Bible (YouTube)

The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt

Leap of Faith (movie)

In the Ring: Debate in an Age of Deconstruction with Dr. Ben Haupt