{"id":426,"date":"2008-09-06T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T10:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=426"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:20:19","slug":"palins-faith-and-her-life-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Palin’s faith and her life and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NY Times has a thoughtful article this morning – <\/p>\n

In Palin\u2019s Life and Politics, Goal to Follow God\u2019s Will – NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cShe asked for a biblical example of people who were great leaders and what was the secret of their leadership,\u201d Mr. Riley said.<\/p>\n

He wrote back that she should read again from the Old Testament the story of Esther, a beauty queen who became a real one, gaining the king\u2019s ear to avert the slaughter of the Jews and vanquish their enemies. When Esther is called to serve, God grants her a strength she never knew she had. <\/p>\n

Mr. Riley said he thought Ms. Palin had lived out the advice as governor, and would now do so again as the Republican Party<\/font><\/a>\u2019s vice-presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod has given her the opportunity to serve,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd God has given her the strength to carry out her goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Palin\u2019s religious life \u2014 what she believes and how her beliefs intersect or not with her life in public office in Alaska \u2014 has become a topic of intense interest and scrutiny across the political spectrum as she has risen from relative obscurity to become Senator John McCain<\/font><\/a>\u2019s running mate.<\/p>\n

Interviews with the two pastors she has been most closely associated with here in her hometown \u2014 she now attends the Wasilla Bible Church, though she keeps in touch with Mr. Riley and recently spoke at an event at his former church \u2014 and with friends and acquaintances who have worshipped with her point to a firm conclusion: her foundation and source of guidance is the Bible, and with it has come a conviction to be God\u2019s servant. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NY Times has a thoughtful article this morning – In Palin\u2019s Life and Politics, Goal to Follow God\u2019s Will – NYTimes.com \u201cShe asked for a biblical example of people who were great leaders and what was the secret of their leadership,\u201d Mr. Riley said. He wrote back that she should read again from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}