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...Obamas have attended Sunday services in Washington three times this year - once at the predominantly African-American 19th Street Baptist Church, and twice at St. John's Episcopal Church across Lafayette Square from the White House. Asked at Tuesday's White House briefing whether the First Family is still searching for a local church to join, press secretary Robert Gibbs responded: "The President has attended fairly regularly up at Camp David a church that he's comfortable in and has enjoyed attending." (See pictures of Obama meeting Pope Benedict...
That still strikes many congregations as extreme. A common first step is to improve security outside. One of Hawkins' clients is Houston's Berean Baptist Church, which had its moment of truth about security needs when the senior pastor's car was stolen as he sat just a few yards away in his office. "Cars were stolen from the parking lot all the time," says executive pastor Hutson Smelley. "And the burglaries got to a point where it was more than once a month...
...native of Houston and longtime member of the city’s 8000-strong, traditionally-black Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, Johnson was raised in a highly religious African-American family. Growing up, he would spend at least three days a week at church, attending choir rehearsals, Bible studies, and oftentimes daylong series of services on Sundays...
...Johnson is a certified minister, and he preaches on the second Sunday of every month at the Western Avenue Baptist Church, an African-American church that’s about an eight minute walk from Mather House. His services regularly draw a crowd of black Harvard Christians, he said...
...campaign war chest. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a 2008 contender for the White House, is a publishing veteran. His seventh and latest book, the decidedly nonpartisan A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit (Sentinel), harks back to Huckabee's roots as a Southern Baptist minister. (Let it be noted, however, that a paperback edition of his fiercely political 2008 best seller, Do the Right Thing, is being published simultaneously.) TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs talked to Huckabee about his electoral plans and the political scene. (See pictures of Devil's Night in Detroit...