work yo. well deserved because can t work in ice lace. that s right. you can t be a parish in isolation anymore. one of the things you said after47 years, you are during the break one of the things churches do is disaster officially retiring from parish ministry. that s right. but not from ministry. relief. what we have given to more about that later. okay. we are so glad you are here. communities throughout the thank you. and you are local. midwest now. and even before that. you were born in oakland. that s right. grew up in alameda and tell and with the hurricane and puerto rico all the ways in us about your call to ministry, which we give. that s one of the things check why did you end up serving in theed connected to united methodist a lot of church give the methodist church? at the age of 18 i had a but that s key to us. about being a methodist. right. we have to be a part of a conversion experience da mass cuss experience two friends i lamu
to flee. at least five people injured. this morning the calls to ban those cruise ships from the venice canal. all that, relentless historic flooding across the mid-west. levees breached. more rain is>nder way. under arrest, a connecticut police take e and his husband in custody. the warriors rebound in a big ay, beating toronto in game two, the series is all tied up today, monday, june 3rd, 2019. from nbc news, this is today with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. hi, everybody. good morning. welcome to today. nice to have you with us. we have craig in for who dark, she s on matnity leave. she will be back soon. let s get right to news this morning, the president started the historic trip to great britain. only the third official state visit by a u.s. president. it comes at a time of political turmoil on both sides of the pond. security, anticipation, in some cases anger are high. nbc white house correspondent peter alex
religion that also impacts us politically and socially. numerous occasions and i thought of that theme and thought my good colleagues and friends totalk about the top stories so i am pleased to welcome again jim hopkins from lake shore baptist. good to be here. and great to have you in oakland. and dale witherspoon of richmond. good to be here and happy new year. i am glad that you when i asked you you call. i mean you come. and i am glad for that. yeah. so let s begin with the stories. let s go with you jim what do you think some of the top stories of the last year. i he doesn t know how political we are supposed to get but one of the top stories is the resolute meof trump s president trump s evangelical base to support him. even in the face of his very iewn easy relationship with the truth. even with his proclivity to racist things and even with the inhumanity of some of his policies, they hang in there and find narratives to support him. he s our cyrus and yo
us politically and socially numerous occasions i thought of that theme and i thought of my good colleagues and friends to come and talk about some of those top stories. so i am pleased to welcome, again, jim hopkins from lake shore baptist. good to be here. great to a have you in oakland. and dale witherspoon in eastern hill united methodist church in richmond. good to be here and happy new year. when i asked you, you come. and i am glad for that. yeah. so let s begin with some of the stories. let s go with you jim what are some of the top stories. i he doesn t know howpolitical we are supposed to get but one of the top stories is the commitment of trump s president trump s evangelical base to support him. and even in the face of his very uneies relationship with en withs proclito racist things and even with the inhumanity of some of his policies. they hang in there and find narratives to support hem. he is our cyrus you know he is aappointed by god and king and
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