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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the keynote address to the United Methodist Women's Assembly at the Kentucky International Convention Center, Saturday, April 26, 2014, in Louisville, Ky.
Hillary Clinton delivered the keynote remarks at the United Methodist Women Conference in Louisville, Ky., this morning, where she spoke about the significant role that the Methodist church has had in her life, while calling on women to follow the gospel of the church and challenge themselves and others to get things done in their communities.
The event was of personal importance to Clinton, a longtime Methodist, who told the nearly 7,000 attendees that being at the conference felt like a sort of homecoming.
The former secretary of state who usually charges a high price these days for speaking engagements, did this one on her own dime. According to the United Methodist Women President Yvette Richards, who introduced Clinton as a daughter of the Methodist Church, Clinton waived her speaking fee for the organization and paid all her own travel expenses.
Throughout her remarks, Clinton described how her experiences growing up in a Methodist household, and the churchs call to service message, shaped her understanding of the injustices in the world and inspired her to pursue community work. She specifically cited her efforts in the State Department in which she helped disadvantaged women and children from around the world.
The potential 2016 presidential frontrunner also called on the women of the church to get their own hands dirty, urging them to participate in their communities and to defy glass ceilings, saying there are no limits on how far we can go.
During one of the most rousing moments in her remarks, Clinton told the audience that as women, we cannot wait for someone to solve our problems, adding that even when we are tired and all we want to do is go away to a secluded place and rest a while, it is important to roll up our sleeves and make it happen.
These sort of empowering remarks for women have been a reoccurring theme for Clinton lately, and as some have noted, sound almost like a personal pep talk perhaps for 2016.
On Wednesday, Clinton made comments at a womens conference in Boston where she hinted that advanced age was a reason to embrace older women in positions of authority. While she wasnt speaking about herself, per se, it raises the question that if shes preaching this, will she practice this?
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Hillary Clinton Has Methodist 'Homecoming'
Quick links to other pages on this site | Still can't find it? see Site Index Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the keynote address to the United Methodist Women's Assembly at the Kentucky International Convention Center, Saturday, April 26, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Hillary Rodham Clinton's faith in God was shaped by her grandmother's hymns and the bedtime prayers from her gruff Navy father, the former secretary of state told thousands of Methodist women Saturday.
Clinton said she struggled as a young woman between her father's insistence on self-reliance and her mother's concern for compassion. She reconciled those in the Biblical story of Jesus instructing his disciples to feed 5,000 people with just five loaves of bread and two fish.
"The disciples come to Jesus and suggest they send away the people to find food to fend for themselves. But Jesus said, 'No. You feed them,"' Clinton said. "He was teaching a lesson about the responsibility we all share."
It was a personal speech from a woman considered the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president. And while the speech mostly steered clear of politics, she made the case on moral grounds for increasing the minimum wage and equalizing pay for men and women - two issues that have polarized Congress in the run-up to the 2014 midterm elections.
Clinton's remarks came at the quadrennial United Methodist Women's Assembly, where 7,000 women gathered for three days of teaching, singing and service. Clinton told the crowd her faith was rooted in her family. She talked about how her father - a self-made, independent man - would "humble himself before God" by her bedside every night. And her grandmother would sing hymns as she braided young Clinton's hair.
As she considers a run for president, Clinton has been brandishing her foreign policy experience lately with a recent speech at the University of Connecticut and by promoting the upcoming release of her new book, "Hard Choices." But Saturday gave Clinton a chance to tell thousands of women from across the country about her own faith and the church she attended growing up in Illinois.
"I love that church. I love how it made me feel about myself," Clinton said. "I love the doors that it opened in my understanding of the world, I loved the way it helped to deepen my faith and ground it."
Clinton said that while she was secretary of state, faith lead her to start initiatives that fought against human trafficking, promoted maternal health care in developing countries and, above all, inspired her to fight for women's rights.
"The truth is there are too many women in our country today trying to build a life and a family that don't just face ceilings on their aspirations and opportunities; it's as if the floor is collapsing beneath them," Clinton said. "These are our sisters, our daughters, granddaughters. Some are hungry, not just for nutritious food but for opportunity, for chance to thrive, for their own piece of the American dream.
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For Hillary Clinton, faith means caring for others
LOUISVILLE, K.Y. By all accounts, Hillary Clinton is a devoted Methodist whose life has been guided by the church's obligations to help the less fortunate and advocate for those who have no voice.But Clinton's proclamation of her faith, once a regular part of her public discourse, has been absent of late.
Until now.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the keynote address to the United Methodist Women's Assembly at the Kentucky International Convention Center, Saturday, April 26, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
Clinton addressed the United Methodist Women Assembly here Saturday morning, a "homecoming" that allowed her and others to celebrate the works Methodist women are doing across the country and world.But could it also be a return to the idea that Clinton will talk more publicly about her faith, especially as she prepares for a potential presidential run in 2016?
"I have always cherished the Methodist Church because it gave us the great gift of personal salvation but also the great obligation of social gospel," Clinton said to the group of 7,000 women gathered here. "And I took that very seriously and have tried, tried to be guided in my own life ever since as an advocate for children and families, for women and men around the world who are oppressed and persecuted, denied their human rights and human dignity."
Clinton once spoke freely and openly about her faith. Her 1996 book, It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us, has an entire chapter devoted to religion. Clinton wrote about how she and former President Bill Clinton were struck by the profound spiritual questions their daughter Chelsea and her friends raised and her deep roots in the Methodist faith.
"Religion figures in my earliest memories of my family," Clinton wrote, and said that the family's quest for spirituality was continual."Our spiritual life as a family was spirited and constant," she wrote. "We talked with God, walked with God, ate, studied and argued with God. Each night, we knelt by our beds to pray before we went to sleep."
Clinton also spoke at the 1996 United Methodist Convention.
The Church was a critical part of my growing up, and in preparing for this event, I almost couldn't even list all the ways it influenced me, and helped me develop as a person, not only on my own faith journey, but with a sense of obligations to others, she said in 1996, adding that Methodism has been important to me for as long as I can remember.
Clinton has spoke about how she was profoundly influenced by Don Jones, her youth pastor in Illinois, and by being active in religious, socially active groups at Wellesley College.
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Hillary Clinton is talking about her faith. Again.
She's rumored to be a 2016 presidential contender, but Hillary Clinton made no mention of that during her visit to Louisville on Saturday.
Clinton gave the keynote address at the United Methodist Methodist Women's Assembly.
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The former first lady and secretary of state addressed a packed room of about 7,000 women, but instead of talking politics, her focus was faith.
"I am delighted to be here among my fellow Methodists," said Clinton.
Clinton made the speech personal, sharing stories of her religious grandmother who used to sing hymns while braiding her hair. She said her childhood church helped her embrace faith in action.
"I loved that church. I loved how it made me feel about myself. I loved the doors it opened and my understanding of the world," said Clinton.
"I didn't know she was a United Methodist woman until this conference, so that just really hit me to see how faithful she was," said Kristin Hromowyk, who came to the event from New York.
Clinton told the crowd that for her, faith means caring about others, which helped guide some of her initiatives as secretary of state.
She specifically mentioned efforts to combat human trafficking and bring maternal health care to developing countries.
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Hillary Clinton in Louisville for United Methodist Women's Assembly