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...final clubs throw open parties like those of the Seneca or the fraternities at other schools? They have the financial means. In fact, the night was organized by Nick J. Saunders '99, the former president of the Phoenix Club...
...would be no surprise from George W. Bush or Al Gore. But from McCain, who has remained discreet about his current faith while waging one of the more religiously contentious primary runs in history, it is revealing. His close relationship with Yeary's church is unknown even to many Phoenix politicos and pastors...
McCain's great-grandfather was an Episcopal minister, and his father prayed twice daily--on his knees. Despite McCain's Episcopal heritage, however, the service he attends--"every time he's in town; John is faithful in worship," says Yeary--is the 9 a.m. Sunday "contemporary" gathering at North Phoenix Baptist. The megachurch is part of the Southern Baptist Convention. More moderate than Bob Jones University, the S.B.C. is still scripturally and socially conservative. One prominent member is McCain target Jerry Falwell...
McCain began attending Baptist services in Tempe, Ariz., before moving to Phoenix. "I just liked the church," he says. The four youngest McCain children are Baptists. Still, McCain maintains his Episcopalianism. Richard Jackson, pastor emeritus of North Phoenix, is not bothered. "I'm concerned about a person's relationship with Christ," he says, "and I was convinced he had that personal faith." McCain, he judges, "is not a biblically versed, mature Christian. He's a novice scripturally. But the Hanoi Hilton is not a seminary...
...told TIME. When he and his wife Cindy do attend, they usually sit behind the youth section, where they can get in and out unobtrusively. "He does not seek attention," says Yeary. "If I tried to recognize him, he might chastise me." Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth, a former North Phoenix member who has prayed with McCain, contends that the candidate's trademark candor extends to his faith. "You read the Psalms, you see how David is brutally honest with God," he says. "That's John. He doesn't keep anything from the Creator any more than from the rest...