Might Hillary Clinton Become A Guest Pastor In The Methodist Church? What A Brilliant Idea!

Hillary Clinton speaks at Union Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina, in October 2016.

Hillary Clinton just might become a preacher. The Atlantic writes that's what she told Bill Shillady, Hillary's longtime pastor, at a photo shoot for his new book focused on the daily devotionals he sent Hillary during the 2016 campaign. The story has legs, according to former Newsweek editor Kenneth Woodward who said that Clinton told him in 1994 that the idea of becoming an ordained Methodist minister was on her mind "all the time". She requested his confidentiality, however, saying "It will make me seem much too pious."

Religion is on Hillary's mind, however, and I doubt it's only because she seeks to rehabilitate her public image, as suggested by Hillary's critics. Hillary clearly sees the way right-wing Christians are demanding that theirs is the only valid American faith, when America worships at least four visions of God, according to an ongoing 2010 project at Baylor University by Paul Froese and Christopher Bader, one that has really caught our eye at AOC. The original research surveyed in-depth 1,648 US adults. But the online research -- which I took -- covered over 100,000 people.

We must broaden the definition of God in America, because the right-wingers who have cloaked themselves in religion and its most rigid beliefs are not the only religious people in America.

Two books are slated to come out of Clinton world early this fall: 'What Happened',Clinton’s personal account of the election, and 'Strong for a Moment' Like This, Shillady’s book of devotionals. Shillady, who runs the United Methodist City Society in New York, wrote the book at Clinton’s suggestion; he said his is the only book for which Clinton has agreed to write a foreword. Clinton and her staffers read and approved the copy ahead of time, writes The Atlantic.

My pleasure of discovering this article came in validating Shillady's devotional to Hillary the day after she lost the election. He wrote:

Jesus completed the excruciating task of giving up his life as a sacrifice for the sins of the world. It was his faith and belief in his heavenly Father, that gave him the grace and peace to submit to Friday. While death had seemingly won, Jesus knew better. When he said, "It is finished," it wasn't meant to be a statement of concession. It was a declaration that a new day was on the way.

Friday is finished. Sunday is coming. Death will be shattered. Hope will be restored. But first, we must live through the darkness and seeming hopelessness of Friday.

As for Hillary attending the seminary, that's doubtful, according to Shillady. 

 “I think it would be more of … her guest preaching at some point,” he said. “We have a long history of lay preachers in the United Methodist Church.”

Since the election, “I think her faith is stronger,” Shillady explained. “I haven’t noticed anything different, except that I think she is more relaxed than I’ve ever seen her.” I will pursue this discovery of Hillary's current thinking to see if there is any way that Anne of Carversville can contribute to a new project, one that acknowledges the importance of religion in American lives, while working to educate and communicate that the vision of God in America is not singular. ~ Anne

Trumplandia: Trump Receiving Twice Daily Propaganda Of Media Praise, Positive Tweets & Royal Bows

It seems logical that an informed administration representing all Americans would want an informed overview of the great, the good, the bad and the downright ugly news and op ed pieces written about them. 

Not Trump!

Vice News reports that twice daily since Trump was inaugurated, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is presented as a feel-good acknowledgement of Trump's greatness at about 9:30 a.m. and the afternoon edition, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both sought the privilege of delivering the precious propaganda 20-to-25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.

The folders are crawling with screenshots of positive-only cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful. The president's fragile ego is not exposed to any negativity, as if Trump is living in the Magic Kingdom. 

“If we had prepared such a digest for Obama, he would have roared with laughter,” said David Axelrod, the senior adviser to Barack Obama during his first two years in the White House. “His was a reality-based presidency.”

Trump is one sick puppy!

Trumplandia: Serious Legal Jeopardy Looms With Confirmation That Trump DID Plan Strategy For Handling Don Jr Meeting Reveal

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Based on Tuesday's acknowledgement by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, it seems that there's lot of truth in the Washington Post's new assertion that the president was deeply involved in writing the particulars of a statement about his son Donald Trump Jr's meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer  “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children”.

Trump's involvement in planning the strategy on how to handle the media on the breaking story was vehemently denied on all five Sunday news shows, by one of his attorneys Jay Sekulow.

Misleading the public or the news media is not a crime, but advisers to Trump and his family told The Washington Post that they fear any factual information that suggests the president is seeking to hide information about interactions between his campaign and Russians almost inevitably will draw additional scrutiny from special counsel Robert Mueller III.

In spite of hiring an expanding roster of lawyers, Trump, is increasingly acting as his own lawyer, strategist and publicist, often disregarding the recommendations of the professionals he has hired, reports multiple sources to WaPo.

“He refuses to sit still,” the presidential adviser said. “He doesn’t think he’s in any legal jeopardy, so he really views this as a political problem he is going to solve by himself.” In his own eyes, he is innocent of any wrongdoing so his actions can't possibly boomerang against him. 

Trump has said that the Russia investigation is “the greatest witch hunt in political history,” calling it an elaborate hoax created by Democrats to explain why Clinton lost an election she should have won.