[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Given her depth of knowledge of the Bible and her experience of caring for people and loving people, she’d make a great pastor,” Shillady told me. No, she probably won’t go to seminary, he said. No, she probably won’t pursue an official lay position in the Methodist church, like deaconess. (I reached out to Clinton’s spokespeople for comment, but didn’t hear back.) “I think it would be more of … her guest preaching at some point,” he said. “We have a long history of lay preachers in the United Methodist Church.”

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, back when much of it was more old-school than it is now, but as far as I recall, most Methodists took a dim view of pastor regularly hitting the bottle, and referring to people as sh*t-kickers, m*****f*****s, Jew bastards, etc. , not to mention ever more problematic behavior such as telling big whopper lies and then lying again when caught.

[Aliska]

I still have a fondness for my good memories of growing up Methodist but had to move on. There was no emphasis on personal sin except it was sinful to drink and smoke and I didn't know exactly what "fornication" meant.

There was one bible verse I will always remember as I believed it the moment I heard it in Sunday school and have ever since. The story about the sick man on a litter whose friends carried him to the roof and removed the tiles, lowered him to Jesus, and Jesus healed him.

And my favorite stained glass window, Jesus with sheep and was a lamb. Maybe it is supposed to represent the 23rd Psalm.