Megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton has won the Democratic primary and will face off against incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall, Republican, in his bid to become Kansas’s first Democratic senator in nearly a decade.
Hamilton is senior pastor of Church of the Resurrection, a multi-site United Methodist megachurch with nine locations and over 24,000 active members, making it the biggest UMC church in the country and one of the largest Methodist churches in the world.
We’ve previously covered the progressive, pro-LGBTQ, pro-choice Hamilton after he claimed that there are hundreds of mistakes in the bible, and after he preached a sermon about Mary Magdalene, arguing that the apostle Paul was wrong about the issues of women and ministry.
The race was called for Hamilton within minutes of the polls closing. He ultimately won nearly 35% of the vote after raising nearly $3.7 million.
Presently, Kansas’s Senate race is rated as likely to remain Republican. Hamilton has previously said of his run
Over the years, I’ve had numerous people suggest I run for office. I’ve been told that my experience leading this congregation, my passion for building bridges instead of walls, for seeking to “close the gap” between the world as it is and the world as it should be, and an emphasis on essential human values found in the gospels – loving our neighbor, and our enemy, and treating others the way we want to be treated – is needed in national politics today.…I’ve always felt my vocational calling was to be your pastor, something I’ve been honored to do for the last 36 years. Yet over the last year, as I’ve seen the polarization in our country reach new heights, with kindness, compassion and common decency often lost in national politics, as well as government policies that seem to widen rather than close the gap, I’ve often found myself thinking “we have to do better.”
