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...incisive as his writing is, some Catholics still question the priorities coming from the bully pulpit. Why, for example, does he not use his Christmas address to boldly condemn Robert Mugabe, whose brutal dictatorship has left a largely Christian country crushed and struggling with a cholera outbreak that has already killed more than 1,000 people? Such thoughts naturally recall Benedict's predecessor, whose geopolitical skills were legendary. (See pictures of Robert Mugabe's reign...
...ideological purity of the Republican Party. In an interview this week with Newsmax.com, Bush, 55, the outgoing President's younger brother, warned the GOP against becoming "Democrat lite. We can't just 'get along.'" Despite his disdain for Washington, the Senate would at least "give Jeb a bully pulpit," says a friend. That could help him keep his party from falling too far into the centrist, bipartisan hands of new Republican leaders like his successor, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who last month hosted a GOP governors conference in Bush's home city of Miami, where that more pragmatic politics...
...religious outreach director for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, says this church in Tenleytown might appeal to you. "Although it's an old church in northwest D.C., the pastor - Rev. Charlie Parker - was once a community organizer. He brings years of not just talking about his faith from a pulpit but also doing it," says Strider. The worship style and theology of Methodists isn't terribly different from what you're used to in the UCC denomination. And, Strider notes, there are a lot of children's programs at Metropolitan for Sasha and Malia...
...First Family - "I'm not sure Obama would go to that church after the experience with Jeremiah Wright." The only downside to People's: the well-respected senior minister is there on an interim basis, and there's no way of knowing who will eventually take charge of the pulpit...
...course, the occasion of that pulpit stint was the fourth anniversary of Khomeini's fatwa, over which Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Iran and during which time Rushdie, on whose head a private Muslim foundation had placed a $2 million bounty, was under police protection. Finally in 1998 Iran said it would neither "help nor hinder" Rushdie's execution, and Rushdie resumed his version of a normal life: there was no obvious security at last week's event. But that experience allowed him to make a strong indirect point in favor of the new Institute. Conservative clerics and talk...