(RNS) — Considered a long shot when he first jumped into the U.S. Senate race in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton, a United Methodist megachurch pastor, narrowly led in the polls as Election Day approached.
The Democratic candidate for Senate for Kansas gets off his campaign bus and takes out from his pocket, smiling, such worn out Gospels that the leather cover already shines. He always carries them with him, he says. Adam Hamilton is not just a brand-new politician. He is also the founder and pastor of one of America’s great mega-churches, the Church of the Resurrection, a unitary Methodist. “Faith is the story that defines my life,” he says duri…