Door to door faith

Not a big event, really, I had invited our local state rep candidate to walk a  few streets in my precinct.  Our candidate is a COGIC pastor.  This is a pretty interersting street, integrated, a mix of retirees and professionals.  And we met neighbors and chatted.  I kept introducing my candidate, pointing out who was who in the neighborhood — the retirees with the son in the Navy, the Orthodox priest (Irish and a hard R) — and then as we were on one side of the street, I pointed out another neighbor.

–That's Mr W.  He's real Right to Life.

–Really?

And with that he sprinted across the street to say hello and begin a conversation.  

Christian politics is like that: we cross the street to make friends with "enemies."  Politics — retail politics — is never simply about the division of goods (though it is that), it is about the building of community.