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An\u00a0<\/span><\/a>article<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>last week tallied up the number of times President Obama has attended church while in office: more than Reagan, less than Bush, and when it comes to all presidents, probably somewhere in between. The piece sought to make a broader point about the president\u2019s religiosity based on these rough metrics\u2013but that equation misses a lot else in the process. So I thought it might be illuminating to provide just a glimmer of Obama\u2019s faith, a few moments out of many that stood out to me over the years of working and praying with our president.<\/span><\/div>\n
One of my favorite memories in church with Obama was from 2007, at Brown Chapel A.M.E. in Selma, Alabama. The young senator was at Brown Chapel to worship and mark the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day in 1965 when civil rights activists faced dogs and batons as they marched from Selma to Montgomery.<\/span><\/div>\n
Obama took the pulpit to deliver a powerful sermon\u2013one of my favorites, later called \u201cThe Joshua Generation\u201d speech, in which he masterfully linked his own diverse lineage, the Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s, the journey of the people of Israel from Egypt to Canaan, and the political moment of that day.<\/span><\/div>\n
Read the rest here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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