"I wake up each morning and I say a brief prayer, and I spend a little time in scripture and devotion," Obama said earlier this month at the National Prayer Breakfast.
If you've thought "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" could use with a little bit of scripture, then maybe "The Sisterhood" is for you.
Here's the kicker: That one little slip about scripture, it goes straight to the heart of his popularity as a candidate and blows a hole right through it.
When one thinks how much great sacred music has been written, 'Musick' features surprisingly little in the scriptures written about this land.
For many years, oddly enough, my brother had fancied himself a born-again Christian, and my mother tried to remonstrate along these lines: "Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord," she'd declaim, whenever he hinted at killing or hurting us, or "Turn the other cheek!"—though actual Scripture had little effect on Todd, since his understanding of God's Will was largely subjective.
Strangely enough, in many of the congregations I have visited, particularly those that claim to be Bible-centered, the reality is that there is very little reading of the Scriptures.
Many people have little or no knowledge of scripture at all.
Some of the ministers that night seemed a little taken aback to hear Scripture being quoted from a Broadway marketing man.
Hokhma is allowed little elbow room in Jewish scripture; but when she appears she packs quite a punch – most notably in Proverbs 8, she is "better than rubies and all things that may be desired … I AM understanding … set up from everlasting, from the beginning … whoso findeth me, findeth life".
(Yeah) The holy Scripture says, "A little child shall lead them".
