The Iowa Freedom Summit & Ag Summit (preparation for Iowa Caucus): on Principles & Values
Scott Walker:
My relationship with God drives every major decision
It is Walker's biography that could make him especially attractive to Christian conservatives. A life story that began in the Baptist churches his father led in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin continues today at the nondenominational evangelical church he
attends in his hometown. "My relationship with God drives every major decision in my life," Walker said in an emailed statement. While that relationship does not direct his daily decisions, he said, "our walk of faith helps us prepare for those
decisions and provides us comfort as we seek to do God's will."During his political rise in Wisconsin, Walker did not often emphasize his faith.
But evangelicals make up nearly 60% of Republican caucusgoers in Iowa. They are an important factor in Southern primaries. And they continue to have an outsize influence on the Republican nominating process.
Source: N.Y. Times on 2015 Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition summit
Apr 1, 2015
Scott Walker:
Raised as a "P.K.", Pastor's Kid, by his father Pastor Llew
Walker was raised a dutiful "P.K.," or pastor's kid. Walker's father, the Rev. Llewellyn S. Walker, was a minister in the American Baptist Churches USA, a more pluralistic denomination than the conservative and better-known Southern Baptist Convention.
Pastor Llew, as he was known, is a Republican, but politics and the social causes of the day did not animate his First Baptist Church in Delavan, Wis., where Walker lived from age 10 until he left for college. His father was foremost "a caregiver to the
congregation," said the church's current pastor. He would spend half a day sitting in the hospital room of an ailing church member, praying and shooting the breeze.Before the elder Walker retired in 1995, at the age of 56, he struggled with
depression. His wife, Pat, and the teenage Scott Walker shouldered some of his pastoral duties. "There were Sundays when Scott would preach the sermon," the current pastor said.
Source: N.Y. Times on 2015 Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition summit
Apr 1, 2015
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