Dear Editor: As Mike Tyson is often quoted as saying, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” But for at least two people, soon-to-be Kansas Sen. Adam Hamilton and myself, the opposite — oddly and blessedly…
Seven progressive Christian leaders win in midterms
Seven progressive Christian clergy or lay leaders who ran for office in the 2026 midterm elections won their races Nov. 3. Headlining that list is Adam Hamilton, founding pastor of Church of the Resurrection, a United Methodist congregation in suburban…
Morning Joe host hears past SBC pastors in Hamilton and Talarico
Adam Hamilton and James Talarico represent the kind of theology TV personality Joe Scarborough grew up hearing in Southern Baptist churches, he said in a broadcast last week. Speaking on his MSNOW show, Morning Joe, the commentator recalled his childhood…
Who gets to define what Christianity means in American public life?
This year’s midterm elections highlight a debate not between Christians and non-Christians so much as a debate between Christians who read the same Bible, pray to the same God and arrive at different conclusions about what their faith requires in…
Renewed debate on churches as polling places
As voters in suburban Kansas City go to the polls for midterm elections, they will not be voting at two locations of Resurrection Church that usually are polling sites. That’s because the multi-site Methodist church’s pastor, Adam Hamilton, is on…
A wicked rally in Kansas
Kansas long has been known as the launching pad for a fantasy story about the “Wizard of Oz.” But last night, the Sunflower State provided the setting for a show even more bizarre than one about witches, flying monkeys and…
JD Vance’s attack on Adam Hamilton draws rebuke from bishop
Vice President JD Vance mischaracterized the views of U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hamilton and the work of his United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Sept. 14 drawing an unusual rebuke from the bishop of Hamilton’s conference. Vance appeared at…
A visit with Senate candidate Adam Hamilton
Editor’s note: BNG has developed a shared content agreement with UM Insight, an independent news service mainly covering issues related to The United Methodist Church. This article was published at UM Insight Sept. 9 and is used here by permission….
No Democrat has won a Kansas Senate seat in a century. Can a megachurch pastor change that?
Adam Hamilton has spent decades trying to bring people to Jesus as founder of the nation’s largest United Methodist church. Now he wants to bring Kansas voters to the polls as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.
Adam Hamilton wins Democratic primary in Kansas
United Methodist megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton won the Democratic primary in Kansas for a contested U.S. Senate seat Aug. 4 and will face the Republican incumbent in November. Hamilton formally entered the primary race in April, after a Lenten listening…
In a year of faith-talking Democrats, a Muslim candidate speaks up
James Talarico isn’t the only Democratic candidate making faith a calling card of his campaign this year. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed will face Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Aug. 4. In a fundraising letter this week,…
Kansas last sent a Democrat to the Senate in 1932. A megachurch pastor aims to change that.
Thirty-six years ago, the Rev. Adam Hamilton co-founded a church with a handful of people in a funeral home chapel. Now, that congregation is the largest United Methodist church in the nation, and Hamilton is setting his sights on a…