3.3.2 War in Afghanistan. In January 2008, Obama told Christianity Today: 'I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead—being my brothers' and sisters' keeper, treating others as they would treat me.' Prior to June 2014, Obama offered substantial support for a broadly-based 'All of the above' approach to domestic energy policy, which Obama has maintained since his first term and which he last confirmed at his State of the Union speech in January 2014 to a mixed reception by both parties.