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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...
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...
Burns Strider, founding partner of the Eleison Group and former religious outreach director for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, says this church in Tenleytown might appeal to you. "Although it's an old church in northwest D.C., the pastor - Rev. Charlie Parker - was once a community organizer. He brings years of not just talking about his faith from a pulpit but also doing it," says Strider. The worship style and theology of Methodists isn't terribly different from what you're used to in the UCC denomination. And, Strider notes, there are a lot of children's programs at Metropolitan...
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...