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...feminine for the word bishop in the Sesotho language. The word literally means "father." This was a bit dismaying to Vashti McKenzie when she arrived in Africa four years ago. After all, McKenzie, now 57, had just been elected the first female bishop in the history of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church and been posted to its 18th district, which includes the churches of Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana and Mozambique. Friends had warned that the African church was particularly patriarchal, and here was linguistic proof...
...faith-based programs and promised to consider in policymaking the pop mantra "WWJD: What Would Jesus Do?" That candidate was Al Gore. Or they could vote for Bush, who was born to East Coast Episcopalian parents, was sent to Presbyterian Sunday school in Texas, converted when he married a Methodist, and was renewed in faith thanks to the evangelical witness of Billy Graham--a fairly typical American spiritual journey...
That may explain the response of voters who praise Bush for his strength and leadership, regardless of where he's leading. "I don't agree with him on everything," admits David Cook, 52, a lay leader at the Lawrence Street Primitive Methodist Church in Lowell, Mass., who says Bush's failings matter less than his motives. "He's not the Messiah, but he follows the Messiah." Charly Gullett, who owns a gun shop in Prescott, Ariz., reaches the same conclusion, coming from the opposite direction. "I'm not a believer in God," he says, "but I recognize that faith...
...residence is in the small study next to the Oval Office where Bush takes select visitors after pointing out better-known White House pieces like the busts of Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower and a watercolor called A Charge to Keep, which gets its name from a Methodist hymn. The study--the one where Bill Clinton held some of his infamous trysts with White House intern Monica Lewinsky--has become a place where Bush keeps the memorabilia that hold special significance for him. Another of the room's mementos: a photograph of special-forces soldiers in Afghanistan praying after...
...arises from diseases that pose just as big a threat here at home. And that brings us back to influenza, which can be found all over the world in all seasons, and can be deadly for older travelers, in particular. Nurse Patricia Davenport, a travel medicine specialist at Harris Methodist HEB Hospital in Bedford, Texas, recommends that older travelers make sure they get a flu shot every year...