Donald Miller at DNC

As you're probably aware, Donald Miller was asked to offer a prayer at the DNC in Denver last week. You can find the speech on YouTube.

I don't have a big problem with what he said (although I wonder how fair teacher's salaries are social justice related, as poverty, AIDS, hunger are?), but in an interview that was given in conjunction with the prayer, Miller exposes himself. (No, not that way!) He has gone from being a thoughtful Christian speaker and writer to a person espousing Democrat talking points. Listen to this interview with CT writer Sarah Pullman.

On another site, I responded with the following:
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Miller has moved from being a thought provoking Christian to a liberal-leaning politico. He seems to blame the "Republican Evangelical Conservative mindset" for the number of abortions, saying that since the "pipedream" of making abortion illegal hasn't worked it's time to move on to other solutions.

Why not find solutions that go hand-in-hand with making abortion illegal? He said Republican Christians search the bible for passages that support policies, for example war. For the most part, I am anti-war. (I say for the most part, as I can't quite get my heart around watching genocide occur when a military action might in fact save lives. But I digress.) How can one be anti-war but support abortion rights? Life is sacred, and one doesn't need to search the Bible to know that truth. It's a disconnect Christians such as Miller seem to want to avoid.

Social justice is a huge concern of mine, and I think that both Democrats and Republicans have failed so many, both here in the US and abroad. We failed to act in Africa when Clinton was President, and we have failed to act with Bush as President. Our failures have nothing to do with political affiliation, they have to do with our failure to live as Christ would.

Sadly Miller seems to want to blame Republicans and Republican policies, failing to hold Democrats equally accountable in this failure. As I said, he has become just another politician.
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While Miller doesn't publicly profess his party affiliation, he doesn't hide it well. And I don't have a problem with his Democrat-lean. It's okay. But he condemns Evangelical leaders even though they too are Christian.

The issues in our culture are not caused by Democrats or Republicans (or I should say they are cause by BOTH Democrats and Republicans). Isn't it time for all Christians to move beyond political affiliation and move toward Christian affiliation? I think Miller is attempting to do so, but his slips and slides into rhetoric betrayed any intention he may have had. I think, as many Evangelical leaders have done before, he is drinking the celebrity Kool-Aid and he likes it. He likes being a star, and the Democrats have embraced him.

I really, truly like Donald Miller's words, his thoughts, and his heart. But I'm disappointed that his words in this instance are not well thought out, and not consistent with Christian doctrine.