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12 Jan 2007 04:22:11 AM |
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Governor held up as modern biblical heroine |
Governor held up as modern biblical heroine
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-34/1168264502234040.xml&coll=6
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Governor held up as modern biblical heroine
Monday, January 08, 2007
By Charles Honey
Press Religion Editor
GRAND RAPIDS -- In a rousing three-hour gospel service, 1,400 worshippers
praised Gov. Jennifer Granholm as a leader anointed by God to lead the
state into a new era of justice and prosperity.
At an inaugural prayer service, preachers compared her to the biblical
heroine Esther, a Persian queen who saved her fellow Jews from slaughter.
Granholm may be God's instrument to help save the state from unemployment,
poorly funded schools and other evils, ministers said in the packed service
at Renaissance Church of God in Christ, 1001 33rd St. SE.
"Governor, I don't believe it was an accident. I believe it was the
providence of God that you as a modern-day Esther were called to the throne
at a time like this," said Bishop Nathaniel Wells II, head of the Church of
God in Christ denomination in West Michigan.
The Rev. William Wyne, of Battle Creek, said she may even be a "modern-day
Mary of Nazareth, who will give birth to a fresh vision, a fresh hope, a
fresh renewal for all people in Michigan."
Granholm afterward shied from the biblical comparisons but asserted faith
is part of the solution for Michigan's ills.
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13 Jan 2007 08:07:26 AM |
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She's a Jezebel?
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| User: "Nosterill" |
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12 Jan 2007 06:28:31 AM |
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wrote:
Governor held up as modern biblical heroine
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-34/1168264502234040.xml&coll=6
[excerpt]
Governor held up as modern biblical heroine
Monday, January 08, 2007
By Charles Honey
Press Religion Editor
GRAND RAPIDS -- In a rousing three-hour gospel service, 1,400 worshippers
praised Gov. Jennifer Granholm as a leader anointed by God to lead the
state into a new era of justice and prosperity.
The date of that article is in the twenty first century. Must be a
typo, surely.
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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| Title: Re: Governor held up as modern biblical heroine |
12 Jan 2007 11:19:06 AM |
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Nosterill wrote:
buckeye-...@nospam.net wrote:
Governor held up as modern biblical heroine
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-34/1168264502234040.xml&coll=6
[excerpt]
Governor held up as modern biblical heroine
Monday, January 08, 2007
By Charles Honey
Press Religion Editor
GRAND RAPIDS -- In a rousing three-hour gospel service, 1,400
worshippers praised Gov. Jennifer Granholm as a leader anointed by
God to lead the state into a new era of justice and prosperity.
The date of that article is in the twenty first century. Must be a
typo, surely.
The Gov is a Catholic speaking in a non Catholic church and seemingly
accepted by other ministers and the church goers. This is definitely a
modern thing. Not to long ago a Catholic was not supposed to go to such
services. I've a nickel that says the congregation is mostly upper middle
class and a promise of more jails and more building was the major part of
the justice and prosperity plan.
Most of the fundies here would condemn all of them to hell.
Of course most of the fundies here have never seen 1400 people in the One
True Church the belong to.
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