As they have every year since moving to the White House, President Obama and the first family spent part of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day at a historically black church in D.C.
Speaking of MLK, the Interior Department says they’ll fix the quote on his National Mall memorial. Maya Angelou says the current quote, which paraphrases the late civil rights leader, makes him look like “an arrogant twit.”
Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett was in the pulpit of MLK’s old church, Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta, delivering what some called a stump speech for Obama. The congregation loved it – but will the IRS?
Newt Gingrich was not as warmly welcomed by Jones Memorial AME Church in S.C., where he was asked to explain why he thinks poor children should be made janitors and why he calls Obama the “food stamp president.”
Rick Santorum is trying to leverage a show of support by evangelical leaders over the weekend into a South Carolina surge, the NYT reports.
Speaking of that evangelical confab last weekend, the Washington Times reports that some participants believe the vote was rigged.
Even with the endorsement, it will be tough to beat Mitt Romney in S.C., the LA Times reports.
Concerns about Mitt’s Mormon faith, according to WaPo, aren’t as prevalent as back in 2008.
Catholic canon law courts are not just for divorces and annulments anymore, the AP reports. The Beeb reports that the use of Shariah to settle disputes is on the rise in England.
Goldman Sachs’ issuance of a $2 billion Shariah-compliant bond is off to a bad start after it emerged that two scholars listed as endorsers had never seen the prospectus.
Belgian authorities removed documents from bishops’ offices as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse that is inflicting a heavy toll on the church, the NYT reports.
A Brooklyn man is charged with making anti-Semitic phone calls – to his mother. Like his mother, David Haddad is Jewish.
Tim Tebow was hammered on Saturday night. Could it be because Salem witches put a hex on him?
The evangelical pastor who wanted to conduct a 24-hour “sexperiment” with his wife on the roof of his church had to back out early after the sun injured his eyes.
Signs and wonders, indeed.
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Daniel Burke
