{"id":464,"date":"2011-05-14T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T21:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/?p=464"},"modified":"2011-05-14T23:31:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T03:31:11","slug":"praying-for-huckabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/05\/praying-for-huckabee.html","title":{"rendered":"Praying for Huckabee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that, in deciding whether he&#8217;s going to tell Fox viewers  <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/05\/huckabee-e-mail-once-i-pull-the-trigger-saturday-night-things-will-get-even-crazier.php?ref=fpb\" target=\"_blank\">tonight<\/a> that he&#8217;s actually running for president in 1012, Mike Huckabee  is not only praying on it, but also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayforhuckabee.com\/\">asking us to<\/a> do the same. Which is pretty cool, when you think of it&#8211;and not just  because the Huck-a-Pray form will give Mike an email list of everyone  who fills it out. But since I&#8217;m not sure I want to be on the list, and  am confident that my prayer will be heard equally well whether I do it  there or somewhere else, I&#8217;m going to do it here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Lord,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d  really like you to encourage Mike to take the plunge. As I&#8217;m sure you  know, I&#8217;ve been claiming that he&#8217;s going to be a candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritual-politics.org\/2010\/07\/huckabee_over_palin_et_al.html\" target=\"_blank\">for some time  now<\/a>, and if he ends up doing so, that will definitely enhance by street  cred. Plus what could be better for anyone in the religion-and-politics  biz than having Huck as the GOP nominee? I mean, the guy was present at  the creation of the national religious right&#8211;press secretary to James  Robison when they rolled the thing out at the National Affairs Briefing  in August 1980! He&#8217;s be the culmination of a generation of evangelical  political agitation!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>OK, Lord, I can hear you saying, &#8220;But that&#8217;s  all about you, Mark. What about what&#8217;s good for Huck? What about what&#8217;s  good for THE COUNTRY? I confess, I have no idea what&#8217;s good for Huck? I  mean, what&#8217;s really going to be best for his own personal lifestyle  choices? Will foregoing the Fox paycheck mean he has to delay his plans  for his house in Florida? Or can he guarantee the big bucks simply by  running for a few months? Jeez, I dunno. As for what&#8217;s good for the  country, well, I&#8217;m pretty sure Huck couldn&#8217;t do worse than any of the  other GOP candidates. So if there has to be a Republican in the race,  why not him? Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>And I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_huckabee2012\" target=\"_blank\">wrong<\/a>! <em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that, in deciding whether he&#8217;s going to tell Fox viewers tonight that he&#8217;s actually running for president in 1012, Mike Huckabee is not only praying on it, but also asking us to do the same. 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After teaching at Harvard in the Department of History and Literature for three years, he became editor of the Boston Review. In 1987 he joined the staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he worked variously as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist. In 1996 he became the founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College and in 1998 founding editor of Religion in the News, a magazine published by the Center that examines how the news media handle religious subject matter. In 2005, he was named director of the Trinity College Program on Public Values, comprising both the Greenberg Center and a new Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture directed by Barry Kosmin. In 2007, he became Professor of Religion in Public Life at the College. Professor Silk is the author of Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II and Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America. 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