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Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup: Pope app * Preacher president * Twinkie art

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Credit: Photo credit: Nancy Peppin’s Twinkie art via the Huffington Post.

Will the surprising Israeli “dead heat” election increase or diminish prospects for peace?

The “Pope App” is live. Only for iPapists right now; Android coming soon, reports CNS.

Lutherans may not be signing up on either platform, and certainly not for the special carve out in the Catholic Church that the Vatican says it could provide for those Lutherans want to return to the Mother Ship.

On the other hand, the Vatican can’t even bring its uber-Traditional Catholic friends back to the fold, it seems.

Maybe Washington has an answer: Pope Obama…

“Unlike any other President that we’ve had, you have the ability to cast vision and inspire people,” United Methodist minister Adam Hamilton told the president at the National Prayer Service. “You should have been a preacher.”

That comes a day after evangelical pastor Andy Stanley called him “America’s Pastor-in-Chief.”

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Topics: Culture, Arts & Media
Beliefs: Christian - Catholic, Christian - Protestant/Other, Judaism
Tags: hostess, israel election, last snack, lutherans, obama, pope app, pope benedict xvi, twinkies, vatican

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  1. “That comes a day after evangelical pastor Andy Stanley called him “America’s Pastor-in-Chief.””

    As the
    President was moving through his Inauguration address, I, too, though that what he was asking of We, the People was not far from what Jesus purportedly said in his Sermon on the Mount.

    What is odd about this is the fact that the GOP, his arch political enemy, pretends to be God’s Own Party, yet has a political agenda far, far from the teachings of Jesus.

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