At Inaugural Prayer Service, a Glimpse of the Pastor-in-Chief’s Vision

Elizabeth Dias of TIME provides a dispatch from Tuesdays Inaugural Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral. She notes how the president has been cast as a “pastor-in-chief.” The Rev. Adam Hamilton, the United Methodist minister who gave the event’s sermon, told President Obama, “Unlike any other President that we’ve had, you have the ability to cast vision and inspire people. You should have been a preacher.”

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