[B-Chan]

"They said they were looking for someone to play the piano at church. It was a little African-American church right in the center of Palo Alto. A Baptist church. So I started playing for that church. That got me regularly back into churchgoing. I don't play gospel very well - I play Brahms - and you know how black ministers will start a song and the musicians will pick it up? I had no idea what I was doing and so I called my mother, who had played for Baptist churches. 'Mother,' I said, "they just start. How am I supposed to do this?' She said, 'Honey, play in C and they'll come back to you.'"

LOL! Not a bad sense of humor for a Calvinist! (For those who don't get it, the key of C is the easiest key to "fake it" in on the piano -- it has no sharps or flats!)

More and more I begin to like this Condoleezza Rice!

[princess leah]

Did A.C. Green ever get married? I think he and Condoleeza would be an AWESOME TWOSOME!

[SternTrek]

Amen to that.

[sauropod]

Why, then is she "pro-choice?"

[tiki]

Isn't she pro-abortion?

[Hila]

Huraay for Ms. Rice - a woman of values, faith and strength.

[SwinneySwitch]

I love her like a daughter!

Viva la Revolucion!

[EggsAckley]

I laughed at the same paragraph! I've always found that when someone doesn't know the key they want, just go to "C" and they'll all follow. LOL!

[rwfromkansas]

bump

[newgeezer]

I do find it curious that this 'testimony' is completely devoid of the words "Jesus" and "Lord." The word "Christ" is used, but only in referring to the lesson of "Doubting Thomas."

I'm not jumping to any conclusions; just pointing out my own puzzlement. I hope and pray her faith is in the saving work of the Lord Jesus Christ on her behalf, and not in simply believing in the mere existence of a "Creator" and His Son. (Even the devil himself knows they exist.)

[2sheep]

Mt 7:20

[No.6]

*bump* for later reference.

[GBA]

Thanks for posting this. Today has been a particularly bad day and, as such, some of what she said is helpful.

I think it is perhaps appropriate, given the recent election, to take a moment and contrast the difference between the Republican and Democrat parties and their recognition and elevation of blacks in government. Compare Condoleezza Rice to Dr. Joycelyn Elders. Both make a representative statement about black Americans. I don't mean this comparison to belittle Dr. Joycelyn Elders and her efforts, but I do believe that there is a world of difference between the two women.

Moreover, I don't believe that race and gender have anything to do with Condoleezza Rice's position in the Bush administration, but much to do with Dr. Joycelyn Elders' position in the Clinton administration.

It seems to me that the party of Lincoln has done a much better job of living Dr. King's vision of recognition of ability and charater above color (and gender) than the party of "America's first black president". G.W. Bush doesn't seem to see color, but he sure can spot, promote and surround himself with ability.

[twntaipan]

When you are in a community of the faithful, it makes a very big difference not only in how people treat each other but in how they treat the task at hand.

This is a great line. It is the essence of the difference between Clintonistas and Bush.

[2sheep]

Ask yourself...

• What do globalists believe?
• Do globalists support Jews and Christians?
• Do globalists support Muslims?
• Who is the spiritual father of a globalist?
• Can a Christian be a globalist?
• Can a globalist be a Christian?
• Can anyone serve two masters?
• Who are the globalists?

[dano1]

If not Condi, who? If not 2008, when?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

It set the elder son up not as somebody who had done all the right things but as somebody who had become so self-satisfied'; a parable about self-satisfaction, and contentment and complacency in faith, [and] that people who didn't somehow expect themselves to need to be born again can be so complacent.

To all those afraid she might be a "Deist" because she doesn't mention the name of Jesus, most "Deist"s don't mention the need to be "born again" either.

[Libertina]

For a lovely, intelligent woman...
Christian Condi BUMP!

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

The reply's to this wonderful post make me thank God that He accepts my multiply prayers for forgiveness every day. The lady is not now, and never has sought elective office, but some here attack her thoughts. I will pray that she comes to understand the true evil that abortion is.

I will also ask Jesus to give me patience for the judgmental people who make me glad that I am a right wing Christian and yet not a member of the Christian Right!

[CyberAnt]

I have been to the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. Wow! It's a great church - or at least it used to be.

[Eva]

This is a pleasant surprise, coming from the "Layman". It used to be controlled by the gay faction of the Presbyterian church.