Favor for Sarah

Not to pile on or get too political but we could not resist posting the Sarah Palin blessing video. While the witchcraft mention is getting all the attention, BC is a little concerned about the less culturally context specific aspects (see the Boston Herald story for some background on the witchcraft reference). Praying that God "makes way for Sarah even in the political arena...bring finances her way even for the campaigning in the name of Jesus" strikes us as a little, inappropriate? BC is all for praying, we do a great deal of it. We're all for blessing, we should be doing more of it. We are not for the abuse of the sacred for the benefit of political ambitions. We are not for candidates who treat Jesus like their campaign finance chairs. The more churches become places where it is impossible to have differing points of view, political or otherwise, the less the church looks like Jesus. And for the record, I've been talking to God regularly about this woman.