A group of pastors, musicians and poets want to convince fellow believers that being Christian doesn’t mean voting Republican
Doug Pagitt and his band of Jesus freaks pull their big orange bus into a North Dallas church and step out into the gloom. It’s been raining on them since Pennsylvania, and today is no different. Was God telling them something? Pagitt, a pastor from Minneapolis, lets out a sigh. “I won’t take this as a sign,” he says.
For two weeks this group of musicians, poets and pastors from both sides of the political divide has been driving across the country proclaiming the good news – or, to most Americans these days, what is simply news news: that to be Christian, you don’t have to vote Republican.
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