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

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.

If you're raised Methodist, Catholicism is a bit of a workout. It's sort of like you're up, you're down, you're up, you're down. It's a continual hokey-pokey.

I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

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.

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

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

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

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.