Check out this great post from William Willimon.  Here’s a sample:

Politics is a risky business for religious people, particular Christian
people, who are the only religious people I know much about. Nobody
goes to church primarily for politics. Nobody chooses a church simply
because that church is politically to the right or to the left. People
go to church to meet God, to have their lives exposed to the glare of
God?s judgments and grace. It is the nature of religious faith that
whenever it is used for any other purpose, other than worship of and
service to God, then that religion is being used and therefore abused.
(This is a prejudiced Christian comment, the only kind you would expect
me to make, but I find it sort of sad when religious people allow their
religious convictions and their religious communities, to be degraded
by being simply used for certain political ends.)

Read the rest here.

About Mark Van Steenwyk

Mark Van Steenwyk is a member of Missio Dei. He is a speaker, writer, educator, and grassroots organizer. With the support of the Central Plains Mennonite Conference, he travels to radical and intentional communities around the country to help network and offer support.