Word: pastoral
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...wedding ring at a Michigan campaign rally. "I don't have any money," he remembers her saying before she dissolved back into the crowd. For the former Arkansas governor, the gesture symbolized his remarkable campaign: a validation of the idea that anyone can be President, even a Baptist pastor with crooked teeth, no personal fortune but an amazing ability to communicate. His sixth book is part memoir and part political treatise, full of policy proposals, like a national sales tax, and harsh words for foes, including "left of center" Mitt Romney and the libertarian "faux-cons" of the Republican Party...
...George Docherty, 97, was a pastor whose 1954 sermon before President Dwight D. Eisenhower eventually led to the insertion of the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance. Docherty said the words applied to Christians, Jews and Muslims. Atheists, on the other hand, "fall short of the American ideal of life...
VanDyke Colby, director of church relations at the historically Methodist university in Winchester, Va., started the religious road trips last fall with his wife Rhonda, a Methodist pastor and the dean of spiritual life, to help students deepen their faith by expanding it. Research suggests that like everything else in one's college years, spirituality is a protean thing. Most high schoolers tend to follow their parents' religion, often without actually knowing many of its basic tenets and stories (half of U.S. high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married). That may be why religion doesn't stick once...
...spot on Saturday Night Live. "I asked if he had prayed about this and believed this was what the Lord wanted him to do," Huckabee writes of the conversation. "I didn't get a straight answer." Months later, McCain rejected Hagee's endorsement because of controversial remarks the pastor had made about biblical interpretations...
Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, starts from the position that whatever church you choose, it has to have a pastor who is the antithesis of Jeremiah Wright. "That would include finding a pastor who preaches on classical Biblical issues as well as contemporary issues. The trick is to find a thoughtful, measured, evenhanded big church. I suspect a place like Metropolitan would fit that description," says Cromartie. The church is not far from the White House and calls itself "the cathedral of African Methodism." As you would expect with an A.M.E. church, the congregation...