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Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.

My grandpa was a preacher.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.