"Without a pastor of his own, Obama turns to five" from the NY Times reports that President Obama, after the political uproar that caused him to throw his former pastor the Reverend Jeremiah Wright under the bus, Obama is playing it safe by consulting five different pastors - all men and evangelical in nature - for spiritual guidance.
Hopefully these are poll tested choices, but ones that sincerely offer him guidance that he may need or seek.
All are men, two of them white and three black — including the Rev. Otis Moss Jr., a graying lion of the civil rights movement. Two, the entrepreneurial dynamos Bishop T. D. Jakes and the Rev. Kirbyjon H. Caldwell, also served as occasional spiritual advisers to President George W. Bush. Another, the Rev. Jim Wallis, leans left on some issues, like military intervention and poverty programs, but opposes abortion.
None of these pastors are affiliated with the religious right, though several are quite conservative theologically. One of them, the Rev. Joel C. Hunter, the pastor of a conservative megachurch in Florida, was branded a turncoat by some leaders of the Christian right when he began to speak out on the need to stop global warming.
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