After This, the Deluge: Alan Sears, CEO for Alliance Defending Freedom, offers this perspective on the preaching office, the sermon, and public issues in the pulpit. Students in the congregation and college can consider the office and role of the preached word, whether education should be located in the pulpit or the class, and what the Lutheran and various other Christian traditions have said about this issue. (ADF has co-authored the recent LCMS publication, “Protecting Your Ministry.”) For a contrasting perspective, see Many Americans Hear Politics From the Pulpit from the Pew Center.