Shortly after taking office as governor in 2006, Sarah Palin sent an e-mail message to Paul E. Riley, her former pastor in the Assembly of God Church, which her family began attending when she was a youth. She needed spiritual advice in how to do her new job, said Mr. Riley, who is 78 and retired from the church.
“She asked for a biblical example of people who were great leaders and what was the secret of their leadership,” Mr. Riley said.
He wrote back that she should read again from the Old Testament the story of Esther, a beauty queen who became a real one, gaining the king’s ear to avert the slaughter of the Jews and vanquish their enemies. When Esther is called to serve, God grants her a strength she never knew she had.
Mr. Riley said he thought Ms. Palin had lived out the advice as governor, and would now do so again as the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee.
Since the Radical Left and the Main Stream Media understand what a great danger she is to them, they will do their utmost to quickly destroy her much as the did with Bork and with Clarence Thomas except much more so. America needs Sarah Palin and she needs and deserves our prayers –
Our Father, thank you for blessing Sarah Palin with your perfect love and your perfect protection from all evil and harm of all types and from all sources. Thank you Father. Thank you.
I still worry about Sarah Palin being too good to be true, but if it keeps on being the case that she walks the walk and doesn’t just talk the talk (other politicians of present and past elections remaining unnamed), she has my vote. The media can keep on painting her as the “Religious Right” all day long, but I think people will see through that.
I didn’t think the article was bad at all. Especially for the NYT. Sure, they had the obligatory aginners, but it was a small part of the whole. The Christian voices were not individually rebutted by “experts”, and the Wasilla folk got the last word.
Actually, I am wondering if she did change churches for political reasons, which would be big news. Note that tidbit came from the Bible Church music person; it would have been helpful if the reporter had dug deeper and confirmed/rebutted it.
Where can I get a bumper sticker that says: “I’m voting for Palin, . . .” and then in small print: “and what’s-his-name.”
the title of the article – In Palin’s Life and Politics, Goal to Follow God’s Will – is a bit of a Rohrshach test. Christians read it and think it sounds just fine while others read it and are just scared to death and conclude she’s the Manchurian Candidate….