It was way back in 2004 that the spark for the Jesus for President campaign was born—by a bunch of post-evangelical Christians trying to figure out how to engage the political circus that happens every 4 years. It started as a little Bible study looking at the politics of Jesus and the social dimensions of the Gospels.
Four years later, in 2008, Jesus for President became a book and a national tour. In the summer of 2008, we travelled through nearly every state in the US in a bus that ran off waste veggie oil, hosting packed out rallies in different cities each night. It was a conscious decision not to have a fancy tour bus like the candidates but to sport an old diesel school bus converted to run off veggie oil we gathered along the way. After all, we wanted to practice what we were preaching… like Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see.” So our freedom ride smelled like French Fries. Jesus for President 2008 made the news – from Fox News, to Al Jazeera, to a headline story on CNN.
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