Politics and Faith

Last night, I shared the workshop that I led at Montreat earlier this month entitled Apocalyptic Presidential Politics.  We talked about religious images in the presidential election.  In particular, we focused on the ways that Barack Obama was made to be either the Anti-Christ or the Messiah.  We also talked about the ways that people find identity and the ways that people conflate political and religious identities (google images for "Jesusaves" for some good examples of this).

I shared this video from a program that originally aired on CNN entitled God's Warriors.  Start the video at about two minutes in to see what Greg Boyd has to say.  This is really good stuff.