Given my recent night and day consuming activities - teaching, blogging, electioneering - I haven't had a chance to step back and reflect on what the last couple of political months and emerging discourses might mean for America and the Adventists who live here.

Nathan Blake is a 28-year-old lawyer who left his firm to work full-time in Iowa on the Barack Obama campaign for president. He talks to Spectrum about mixing politics and religion, and Obama's chances.
Question: What is your role in the Barack Obama campaign? What do you do every day?
Answer: I've been a field organizer for about a year and recently switched to the communications team in Iowa.
Field work is on-the-ground voter contact – what this campaign is famous for.