Michelle Obama Urges Church Leaders in Nashville to Take Community Action

At The Tennessean, Bob Smietana reports that last week, Michelle Obama delivered a speech “that was part sermon and part call to get out the vote” to the African Methodist Episcopal Church’s (AME) general conference in Nashville. “Jesus didn’t limit his ministry to the four walls of the church,” the First Lady said during her half-hour speech. “He was out spreading the message of grace and redemption to the least, the last and the lost.”

Read at The Tennessean

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