In a commentary on why President Obama’s churchgoing matters, Virginia pastor Henry G. Brinton says it boils down to putting faith in action.
“Since religious talk helped to get Obama elected, people now want to see a religious walk,” Brinton, pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church, wrote in a commentary in USA Today.
He quotes Eric Sapp, a partner in a consulting firm that works with Democrats to improve communication with U.S. faith groups, who noted a dilemma in the president’s pending decision about where he will worship beyond the nondenominational chapel at the Camp David presidential retreat.
“Obama’s allies will be looking for him to make an inspired choice that helps reshape America’s faith and racial dialogue,” said Sapp, of the Eleison Group, “and his enemies will be looking for a choice they can use to undermine his presidency.”
The president weighed in on the matter in a July roundtable with Catholic press reporters, saying, “We may choose, rather than to join just one church, to rotate and attend a number of different churches.”
