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There was a moment during last week's emotion-filled White House reception for Nelson Mandela when I felt as if I had traveled back in time. It came when the Rev. Bernice King, who looks and sounds remarkably like her sainted father Martin Luther King Jr., likened Bill Clinton to the biblical King David, who kept his throne despite his sinful dalliance with Bathsheba because he atoned. Offering the President her understanding and her forgiveness, she intoned, "It's time, I think, for us to leave our President alone." The audience of African-American religious leaders broke into...
Perhaps, but few in Wichita are complaining right now. Reflecting on the "drugs, violence and sexual issues" that high schoolers contend with today, the Rev. Tyrone Gordon, who pastors an integrated, mainline Wichita Methodist congregation, says of the largely white, evangelical See You population, "I am pretty proud of them for expressing themselves in the way that they are doing." His observations lead him to believe that "these are children who have made their decision and come to [God] on their own." Certainly the throng at the post-See You rally at Wichita's Metropolitan Complex auditorium seems self-propelled...
When he addressed the nation on Aug. 17, President Clinton insisted that his relationship with Monica Lewinsky was a private matter between "my wife, our daughter and our God." But it was only hours before the Rev. Jesse Jackson took to his TV bully pulpit to air his pastoral moments with the Clinton family, and only days before the President used Washington's annual prayer breakfast to proclaim himself a sinner. Last week word got out that the President had asked three clerics to monitor his recovery in weekly prayer sessions. The recruitment of so many spiritual counselors to bear...
Though they made no direct comments about the content of discussions with Clinton, critics charge they have abrogated the preacher-penitent privilege, a bond so sacred it can't be broken even by a subpoena. "It would serve Clinton's cause well if it were made public," says the Rev. Robert Schuller, who has long advised Clinton. "It's very difficult to buy the genuineness of the repentance if it comes after the person has been caught, but it's easy for me to buy the sincerity of tears in private to a pastor...
Other Presidents and leaders are suspected of having had affairs, including--gasp!--Ronald Reagan (pre-White House), George Bush, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela and dozens of other famous and, in many cases, wonderful leaders, including just about every President of France since World...