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After Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election to Donald Trump last November, she went hikingand she also turned to religion. That included gettinga pep talk from her pastor.

The ReverendBill Shillady revealed this week that he sent an email to Clinton the morning after the election, and ittalked about Good Friday, the day on which Christians believe Jesus Christ was crucified. According to a copy of the letter posted by CNN, Shillady acknowledged that "this is not the devotional you wish to receive this day," but he took her through the story nonetheless.

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"For the disciples and Christ's followers in the first century, Good Friday represented the day that everything fell apart. All was lost. The momentum and hope of a man claiming to be the Son of God, the Messiah who was supposed to change everything, had been executed," Shillady wrote. "Even though Jesus told his followers three days later the temple would be restored, they had no idea of what that Sunday would be. They betrayed, denied, mourned, fled and hid. They did just about everything BUT feel good about Friday and their circumstances."

Shillady told Clinton that sheand the nation, which ultimately gave her the popular votewas in the middle of such a Friday but needed to hold on.

"Our hope is that Sunday is coming. But it might well be hell for a while," he wrote.

Clinton identifies as a Methodist, and she's previously said that her religious upbringing helped her personaldevelopment. Shillady, the executive director of the United Methodist City Society in New York, and Clinton met in2002, according to the Associated Press, and they became fast friends. The pastor attendedboth her daughter's wedding and her mother's memorial. During last year's campaign, he wrote her daily devotionals.

He's recently collected those messages intoStrong for a Moment Like This, due out next week. Clinton wrote the foreword for the book, which,according to the publisher's website, includes 365 devotions "along with personal notes, portions of her speechesand headlines that provide context."

As for Clinton, Shillady said she's finally reaching her proverbial Sundaywhich, as he told McClatchy DC, may even include a stint preaching.

"She's the most relaxed I've ever seen her, having fun with her grandchildren. I think she'll continue to speak out on issues that are important to her, on women and gender and children's health," Shillady told CNN. "'Sunday' is not another election for her. She's moving on with her life."

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NEW YORK In speaking to reporters about theupcoming release of his compilation of devotionals written for Hillary Clinton throughout her presidential candidacy, Bill Shillady revealed that Clinton is now considering preaching on occasion as a layperson.

Shillady, who serves as the executive director of the United Methodist City Society and identifies as the pastor of the Clinton family, told reportersthis past week that he emailed devotionals to Clinton every day from the time that she announced her candidacy. The devotionals have been compiled into a book entitled Strong for a Moment Like This, scheduled to be released on Aug. 15.

It was really just a movement of the Spirit, Shillady claimed to the News & Observer. I didnt know how difficult the campaign was going to be, or how contentious. I just thought it would help her to have a Scripture, and a meditation on that Scripture, and a prayer each day.

She knows the Bible remarkably well, and I think she knows what passages to turn to when she needs inspiration or solace, he also told CNN. She reads her Scripture every day. That, for her, is a practice of spiritual discipline. She told me that my email was the first she opened every day and and it helped keep her grounded and centered.

He said that since losing the presidential election, Clinton has been taking walks in the woods and spending time thinking and praying. When asked if she might be led to the pulpit next, Shillady said that Clinton had actually mentioned that possibility to him.

He noted that United Methodists have a practice of allowing laypersons to speak, and that Clinton is considering that option.

We were having a photo shoot for the book and chatting about preaching and she said, Bill, I think Id like to preach,' Shillady outlined. In United Methodism, theres a tradition of having lay people preach from the pulpit, and I think shes going to look at occasionally doing that and sharing the good news without it being a politically charged environment.

He further advised on Fox News on Sunday that Clinton will not be seeking ordination.

She knows her Methodist history. She would be a good expositor of the Bible, Shilladay opined to the News & Observer. The way she has advocated for the disenfranchised and the poor in our nation stems from her Methodist upbringing and her understanding of the Methodist heritage of being a member of society and caring for others. And talk about life experience. She could write her own book about that.

However, many opposed Clinton during the presidential election because her pro-homosexual, pro-abortion beliefsrun contrary to the word of God.

In a nutshell, heres why I cannot vote for Hillary Clinton, wrote Bryan Ridenour in 2014 on his blog America, Look Up. I hate the radical departure from holiness that our country continues to take, all while people stand by and cheer our progress. God loathes homosexuality (not the homosexual) and yet many in America embrace homosexual marriage. Is God pleased? Ask Sodom and Gomorrah.

We slaughter over one million babies per year in the womb. The numbers staggering. Are Christians supposed to remain mum about this tragic court approved holocaust? Is God pleased if we just look the other way? Is God pro-choice? he asked. When a candidate idolizes Margaret Sanger and is a darling of Emilys List, Conservatives need to run, not walk, in the other direction.

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President Barack Obama, seen here visiting Nelson Mandela's prison cell on Robben Island in South Africa in 2013, quoted the late South African leader in a tweet Saturday night.

Democratic leaders responded to reports of violence and racial clashes at a white nationalist rally in Virginia on Saturday with calls for introspection on matters of racial hatred.

Former President Barack Obama sent a rare tweet Saturday night quoting civil rights icon and anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela in an apparent response to the violence in Charlottesville, stressing that "love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

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Obama, who has largely strayed from making public comments since exiting the White House in January, took to Twitter on a day mired by racial violence and tension in the state of Virginia, including the mayhem caused by a car barreling into a crowd of protesters.

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite," the former president wrote in a series of tweets, quoting from Mandela's autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom."

Hillary Clinton, Obama's former secretary of state and the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, chimed in on Twitter by calling on political leaders to "to be strong in their words & deliberate in their actions" in the face of Saturday's upheaval.

"The incitement of hatred that got us here is as real and condemnable as the white supremacists in our streets.," Clinton tweeted. "Every minute we allow this to persist through tacit encouragement or inaction is a disgrace, & corrosive to our values."

Former Vice President Al Gore took a more blunt approach, directly criticizing President Donald Trump's response to the violent clashes,

Mr. President, for the sake of your country, I would urge you to try again, Gore said in response to Trump's address on the matter. Mr. President, I would urge you to give more thought to what it means to have a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi movement marching and creating this kind of hatefulness.

He added: The country would be better served if the President would come back before the people and think of a more thoughtful and appropriate statement about how we can understand whats going on in American and how we go forward.

Hundreds of protesters clashed with white supremacists during a rally in Virginia, resulting in the death of a woman and injuries to dozens more. Two state police troopers were killed when their helicopter crashed on the outskirts of town. The rally, held to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, is believed to be the largest gathering of white nationalists in over a decade, according to The Associated Press.

The driver of the vehicle that plowed into the crowd was identified as James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio. He was charged with second-degree murder and other charges, according to the AP.

Trump addressed the violence from his golf resort in New Jersey on Saturday, saying he condemned in "the strongest possible terms this degree of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides" in display in Virginia, adding that he found the situation "very, very sad."

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According to The Atlantic, Clinton told her longtime pastor Bill Shillady, at a recent photo shoot for his new book, that she wants to preach something that the outlet says has always been a dream for her.

This comes on the back of a report that Clinton told an editor in 1994 that she thought all the time about becoming a minister. Per theAtlantic:

Last fall, the former Newsweek editor Kenneth Woodward revealed that Clinton told him in 1994 that she thought all the time about becoming an ordained Methodist minister. She asked him not to write about it, though: It will make me seem much too pious. The incident perfectly captures Clintons long campaign to modulateand sometimes obscureexpressions of her faith.

The revelation comes ahead of two Clinton-related books coming out in 2017. Clinton herself has writtenWhat Happened a 500+ page campaign post-mortem about how she lost in November. But Shillady himself has a new book of devotions: Strong for a Moment Like This: The Daily Devotions of Hillary Rodham Clinton which has a forward byClinton herself.

Given her depth of knowledge of the Bible and her experience of caring for people and loving people, shed make a great pastor, Shillady told the Atlantic, but noted it would likely be more of a lay position such as a deaconess.

I think it would be more of her guest preaching at some point, he said. We have a long history of lay preachers in the United Methodist Church.

The blurb for the book says it includes 365 of the more than 600 devotions written for Clinton, along with personal notes, portions of her speeches, and headlines that provide context for that days devotion.

Clinton is writing the foreword, the first time post-election readers will have a chance to hear directly from her about her faith during this time, the teaser for the book says.

Some Methodists have expressed their excitement for a Clinton move to the more spiritual side. Zach Hoag, writing for HuffPost, noted the spiritual character of her concession speech and suggested it may be a sign of Hillarys resurgent religious focus.

As a United Methodist, Id be pumped to see Hillary take the pulpit in our church and dig from that deep well of experience, disappointment, and hope in a future harvest, he wrote.

Adam Shaw is a Breitbart News politics reporter based in New York. Follow Adam on Twitter: @AdamShawNY

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As violence escalated at a white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on leaders to speak out, take action and prove that this is not who we are as Americans.

White supremacists and armed militia faced off with counter-protesterson Saturday, attacking each other with flagpoles, bats and chemical sprays at the so-called Unite the Right rally.

Clinton said in a series of tweets that incitement of hatred was to blame for the chaos which turned deadly when a car plowed into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, killing a woman and injuring 19 people.

The incitement of hatred that got us here is as real and condemnable as the white supremacists in our streets, Clinton wrote.

Every minute we allow this to persist through tacit encouragement or inaction is a disgrace, & corrosive to our values, she added.

Without mentioning anyone specifically, Clinton called on leaders in the country to be strong in their words and deliberate in their actions while responding to Saturdays rally.

She also challenged people to take a stand against the rally and the hatred that fueled it.

We will not step backward, Clinton tweeted. If this is not who we are as Americans, lets prove it.

Clintons message was notably more pointed than President Donald Trumps response to the violence, which didnt acknowledge white supremacy or racism at all.In statements and tweets, Trump condemned hate, bigotry and violence but said that it was coming from many sides.

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