Answers to Real Problems

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was one of the most influential preachers in the twentieth century. He believed every sermon ought ask and answer some question that genuinely troubles individuals or the societies of which they are a part.
Answers to Real Problems gathers several significant sermons from Fosdick's long ministry. The selection is rooted in current needs. This collection presents him asking and answering questions that still weigh--or ought to weigh--on the minds of people today. Here is one of America's finest preachers talking about war, nationalism, the relationship between liberals and conservatives, the plight of the church, public ethics, private morality, and more.
Mark E. Yurs is Pastor of Salem United Church of Christ in Verona, Wisconsin. He is the author of Being a First Church: What a Pastor's First Congregation Should Know (Wipf and Stock, 2003).