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71st Annual Al Smith Dinner

NEW YORK, NY 20 OCTOBER: Images from the 71st Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. Cardinal Timothy Dolan is hosting the event that featured keynote addresses by The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mr. Donald J. Trump. The Alfred E. Smith Foundation provides financial support to not-for-profit organizations working with children who are impoverished, neglected, abused, emotionally troubled and physically handicapped. (Photo by Jeffrey Bruno)

Deacon Greg Kandra - published on 08/07/17

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This news seems a little farfetched to me, but anything is possible, I guess:

Hillary Clinton wants to preach. That’s what she told Bill Shillady, her longtime pastor, at a recent photo shoot for his new book about the daily devotionals he sent her during the 2016 campaign. Scattered bits of reporting suggest that ministry has always been a secret dream of the two-time presidential candidate: Last fall, the former Newsweek editor Kenneth Woodward revealed that Clinton told him in 1994 that she thought “all the time” about becoming an ordained Methodist minister. She asked him not to write about it, though: “It will make me seem much too pious.” The incident perfectly captures Clinton’s long campaign to modulate—and sometimes obscure—expressions of her faith. Now, as Clinton works to rehabilitate her public image and figure out the next steps after her brutal November loss, religion is taking a central role. After long months of struggling to persuade Americans that she is trustworthy, authentic, and fundamentally moral, Clinton is lifting up an intimate, closely guarded part of herself. There are no more voters left to lose. In sharing her faith, perhaps Clinton sees something left to win, whether political or personal. …On the campaign trail, Clinton would talk about prayer or witness her faith when asked, and
about religion when she visited black churches. But she largely relied on secular terms. One of her favorite expressions was, “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can”—a phrase often misattributed to the founder of Methodism, John Wesley, that might not sound religious to those who don’t know the history. Clinton did not revive her decades-old rhetoric about “spiritual renewal” and “[filling] that sense of emptiness with the Word.” Instead, she spoke neutrally about kindness, love, and respect. “Hillary finds it hard to talk about religion a lot,” [former White House press secretary Mike] McCurry said. She “comes from the Methodist tradition, which, like many more liberal, mainstream Protestant denominations, is a little more buttoned up.”

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