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Our ex-president's heart warned him a few days after he mounted the pulpit in Riverside Church to preach to the long converted. Once upon a time it was known as a Christian congregation, but today it is a Congregation of Faith -- many faiths. Bill, wearing a dark suit, a white shirt and a most solemn expression, did not quote from Bishop Augustine, who lived in 400 A.D. and is said to have prayed. Clinton had other issues -- such as the "moral and democratic crises" of our times to talk about. Crises are not new to Riverside Church, a...

Bill Clinton bashed President Bush in a speech delivered from the pulpit of a prominent Manhattan church on the Sunday before the Republican National Convention began. Yet, Americans United for Separation of Church and State does not view Clinton's pulpit-based diatribe a violation of tax laws. Ever since then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D.-Tex.) slipped a provision into a bill back in 1954, federal law has prohibited tax-exempt churches from engaging in partisan political speech. Every election season, Americans United files complaints against churches that it alleges have violated this law. The group also opposes the Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration...

It was quite telling that the strongest religious statement made at the Republican convention came not from a Republican but from a Democrat, Georgia Senator Zell Miller, who claimed, among other things, that the current President is the same person on Saturday that he is on Sunday morning. Convention speeches are carefully managed. And I suspect that a shrewd Republican handler ensured that the convention’s most emphatic statement in support of Bush’s faith be offered by a Democrat. Why? Because the Bush team has learned a crucial lesson: The press does not express outrage when Democratic politicians, unlike Republican politicians,...

Clergy members of many different faiths sing together at Riverside Church in New York during a Let Justice Roll rally Tuesday. (Photo by Harry DiOrio) The Rev. James Forbes, pastor of Riverside Church in New York, delivers a sermon at the Let Justice Roll rally. Riverside is a focal point of the revitalized religious progressive movement. (Photo by Harry DiOrio)   VALUES AND PHILANTHROPY Religious Left Says It's Ready for Major Political Push BY MARK O'KEEFE More Mark O'Keefe Stories NEW YORK -- With a full-page ad in the New York Times, a flashlight-illuminated protest on Broadway and a...

Rev. Bubba uses Billy pulpit to bash Bush BY MAGGIE HABERMAN DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU Bill Clinton hammered Republicans from a Manhattan church pulpit yesterday as a group of right-wingers bearing "false witness" against the Democrats. The attack was part of a two-pronged assault yesterday by the former President and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), marking the unofficial launch of the Democrats' counter-offensive during the GOP convention. In a scripture-laden speech, Clinton also said controversial attack ads against Democrat John Kerry's military record were the same "smear" that was used on Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former...

Former President Clinton, quoting scripture from a church pulpit, sought to frame the 2004 election in moral terms on Sunday and said President Bush's Christianity doesn't keep him from seeing things "through a glass darkly....." Her husband, the former president, speaking at Riverside Church in upper Manhattan, said, "Politics and political involvement dictated by faith is not the exclusive province of the right wing.".... The Democrats, Clinton argued, need to show their policies are also rooted in faith. "The religious right has tried to turn us all, in disagreeing with them, into two-dimensional cartoons," he said. Speaking of Bush's religious...

NEW YORK - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton strongly implied Sunday that the Bush White House was involved in a "smear" attack on the Vietnam War record of Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry. President Bush and Ed Gillespie, party spokesman at the Republican National Convention, moved to distance themselves from the television ads sponsored by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. But Sen. Clinton said on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer," "It's so sad that these smear tactics have been undertaken by this group, and apparently with at least the knowledge, if not...

Clintons at Riverside, replaying now...

NEW YORK — Former President Clinton, quoting scripture from a church pulpit, sought to frame the 2004 election in moral terms on Sunday and said President Bush's Christianity doesn't keep him from seeing things "through a glass darkly." Hillary Rodham Clinton said Bush's re-election "would be a disaster." A day before the Republicans opened their convention, the Clintons spent the day reminding the GOP that New York City is still a Democratic town. Before joining her husband at church, Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y., made the rounds of TV talk shows. When asked if she agreed with Democratic presidential nominee John...

Former President, William J. Clinton will address the congregation during the worship service on Sunday, August, 29, 2004. Dr. Forbes will introduce Mr. Clinton as part of an anouncement about the current Mobilization 2004 campaign to recover America's spiritual, moral and democratic values. United States Senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton will also attend the service.