Politics & Faith with former Obama Staffer Michael Wear - Part 2

Today’s episode features former staff member for President Obama, Michael Wear for part 2 of our 4-part Politics & Faith series Just as a reminder, throughout this series, you’ll hear from different voices across the political spectrum. 

During his time working in the White House, Wear directed faith outreach for President Obama's historic 2012 re-election campaign and was one of the youngest White House staffers in modern American history, leading evangelical outreach and helping manage the White House's engagement on religious and values issues, including adoption and anti-human trafficking efforts.

Michael is a leading thinker at the intersection of politics and faith. His Christian approach to politics can be boiled down to this: politics is a forum for loving your neighbor.

As a part of this foundational belief, Michael says ​the ​kind ​of ​person ​you ​are ​in ​politics ​is ​just ​the ​kind ​of ​person ​you ​are… and if that truth hurts, it may be time to reevaluate the way you behave (especially if you are a Jesus follower)!

“The ​crisis ​for ​Christians ​is ​not ​that ​we're ​politically ​homeless, ​but ​that ​we ​ever ​thought ​we ​could ​make ​our ​home ​in ​politics ​at ​all.”