Word: pastoral
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What did you think about the strong reaction against Reverend Wright, Obama's former pastor...
...done on the ground. Georges Kouakou, 50, remembers the Western missionaries when he was growing up poor in his native Ivory Coast. Having emigrated to France, Kouakou, a computer engineer and father of three, regularly attends mass at Notre Dame des Victoires church in central Paris. The pastor to the mostly native French parishioners there happens to be from the Congo. "There's been an evolution," Kouakou says. "Europeans went to evangelize Africans; today it's the reverse, and Africans are now evangelizing. These are the seeds that God planted...
...past week we’ve learned that despite officially renouncing her status as a Pentecostal Christian, Palin retains that tradition’s fervor for proselytizing. In the Chicago Tribune, Palin’s own pastor envisaged the political bearing her faith might have on the United States, saying, “I believe Sarah would not live in a fragmented world,” and adding that her worldview, “that really only the Bible and the relationship with Jesus opens up,” could not simply be ‘marginalized?...
...Moments after encouraging the faithful at her old Pentecostal church to pray for pipeline revenue, she proved her pastor right: “I can do my job [in Anchorage] in developing our natural resources, doing things like getting the roads paved…but really all of that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God. And that’s gonna be your job…to be out there reaching the people and converting the people of Alaska...
Obama knows well the power of a great speech. When his campaign came under fire before the Pennsylvania primary for controversial statements by Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama delivered a historic speech on race that changed the conversation and stemmed the attacks. This time around Obama needs to turn the conversation away from him-where it has lingered the last month, producing worrying poll numbers for the Democrats-and on to the issues. "This speech and this election is really not about Barack Obama it's about the American people," Axelrod said. "It's about the country...