Summary: Senior editor Mollie Hemingway interviews Michael Wear, a former White House staffer serving the President Obamas faith-based initiatives and evangelical outreach. Wear is the author of Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America. Wear recounts how Obamas faith messaging and invitations to people of faith was a central piece of his election, as well as some of the failures and controversies that would arise in the administration. In particular moments, policy decisions were made, not to resolve conflict, but to stoke it, and thats something that in one hand is quite disappointing, Wear said. On the other hand it shows that there are other paths that could have been taken, and if we reject using some of these issues to stoke divides, then maybe we arent as far away from our politics bringing folks together as we think.
