Sermons in War

"I continue to try and make sense of a blue, autumn day violated by war and the consequences that scarred us." Pastor, professor of church history, husband and father, Dr. Michael Bledsoe provides a collection of the initial sermons he offered in response to 9/11. These are joined in turn by sermons offered over the past decade that speak to war and peace and "the complicity of religion with all that diminishes us."These sermons, and a pastor's reflection on why he chose to preach in the way he did, are not the pablum of Christianity-as-Entertainment but are "rocks thrown at windows." For these sermons brave difficult questions, offer a critique of prevailing cultural and secular ideas and in the end, honor the lives of both congregant and citizen who have sought to make sense of their lives in a context of war.