Along with Arely Vazquez, the three top devotional leaders are women, and the saint herself is uniformly considered female, even having such 'girly' nicknames as White Girl, Pretty Girl, and Skinny Girl.
With Mr. Obama's blessing, Mr. DuBois will also write a book of devotionals for leaders, based on those he sent to the president.
After all, they benefited from the cracking of segregation, which must make them some of "these problems" the Senate majority leader alluded to in his devotional to the bygone era of the still-here Strom Thurmond.
The film focuses on the recording of the singer-songwriter's 2004 Grammy-winning album Egypt, which featured secular music and songs based on devotional Islamic music — prompting criticism from Sufi leaders for incorporating sacred religious themes into his songs.
The rap music was replaced by nashids (traditional Islamic devotional music) in German praising Osama Bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
This is hardly the cheeriest of endings, but Handel made the most of it: in an exquisite final duet, Theodora and Didymus look forward to the world to come, and Irene, the leader of the Christians, leads a sublime devotional chorus, "Oh Love Divine".
Republican leaders like Dick Cheney and Rudy Giuliani worship Churchill with a devotional intensity that would embarrass a medieval peasant on a pilgrimage.
Led by their religious leader, chanters recited the Hanuman Chalisa, a Hindu devotional hymn dedicated to the god Hanuman.
"Will you oblige?" After a few minutes' consultation, the men informed us that we would be received in the Hosseinieh, a devotional meeting hall that was ornamented with pictures of the supreme leader, carpeted with Chinese knock-offs, and locked.
The devotional moment represented another bare-chested media day for Putin, a leader who oversees a corrupt political system, imprisonment and torture of gays, ongoing harassment of and violence against journalists and apparent involvement in U.S. election meddling, but also a public relations operation to sustain the mythos of his machismo.
Lars S., a former member of the NPD and later leader of the Freien Netz Nordsachsen cadre and administrator of a Nazi-devotional dispatch, is currently serving a multi-year sentence with like-minded comrades.
