Yesterday CTK had an opportunity to comment on the Synod by answering any number of questions posed in preparation for that meeting. Minister Robin Meyers makes a relevant argument in his book: “Saving God From Religion.” (begin) “Today we hear preachers who mouth platitudes about justice but do not follow through by tsking any moral action, lest they offend someone in the congregation. They do not organize, they do not protest, hey do not create the non-violent tension that forced a crisis of conscience by shining light on injustice. Perhaps what is most insidious, however, is that they make an artificial distinction between partisan politics and the politics of the gospel. This is the illusion of separation Again. “Our message is religious, not political,” they say. “We save souls, not the world, they remind us…I know of no pastor who has not heard: “Leave politics out of the pulpit.” If this means avoiding partisan politics, as in telling people whom to vote for, or whose candid