Reconstructing Faith: Dealing with Politics at Church
Untangling and Re-engaging
For many people, the politics of their churches were the “final straw” that led them to leave those churches, if not Christianity altogether. This is especially true for Millennials, those born between roughly 1980 and 1998.
Politics may have driven you from your church, but it doesn’t have to keep you away from a faith community forever.
Why did politics become a wedge in churches?
Most Millennials were at a formative age during Bill Clinton’s impeachment over the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal. We heard from pastors and politicians that character matters, that telling the truth matters, that fidelity and integrity matter. That a man with Bill Clinton’s character, a liar and an adulterer, was not fit for the office of president.
Those same people condemned Donald Trump for a hot minute before rallying behind him as though he were God’s gift to America simply because he wasn’t a Democrat.
A liar. An adulterer. A man who bragged about committing, and getting away with, groping women without consent. Someone who promoted racist lies about Barack Obama’s birth, who mocked John McCain for being a POW, who displayed the character of a toddler throwing a tantrum.
