Sara Miles on Beliefnet

With this political commentary, I may end my rants and raves for the election cycle....
May. be. :) But even if you are tired of politics, or at least my commentary, keep reading.

"It's not that I think faith exists apart from what Christians like to call "the world." Just like Jesus, we're all born smack in the middle of the flesh and blood of a politicized world, and I believe we're called to engage with it. I'm not asking Christians to retreat from activism.

But I know that we're shaped by what we pay attention to. And that, like a tree planted by a stream, we flourish when we steep ourselves daily in the often uncomfortable waters of Scripture--the Word which demands that we see ourselves as fundamentally the same as God's other messed-up children; that we humble ourselves and admit what we don't know; that we pray not just for our side but for our enemies. We flourish when we drag ourselves to church and sit next to people whose politics we don't agree with; when we listen openly to the prayers of their hearts, when we offer them the kiss of peace even when we can't stand them.

On the other hand, if we avoid real conversation with other human beings in favor of being planted by the shallow stream of TV news, or the treacherous stream of attack ads, or the noisy stream of angry blogs, our souls are in danger. Our attention to all the disembodied trivia and rage and slander that pours forth in an election year can be poisonous. It makes us passive: we don't necessarily do anything in response to the media onslaught; instead we only reinforce our own opinions. A politics -like a theology--that's only about opinions and doctrine, not action, makes us self-righteous. And then we're only able to pray, like the Pharisee, "Thank God I'm not like other people."

"Preach it," says Paul.

So Paul and I agree on a plan for our church, a way for us to involve our members as Christians this election season. Here it is, our radical gay agenda: Read the Bible and pray for your enemies."

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