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...Born in April 1936, Rothschild was educated at Eton College before studying history at Christ Church, Oxford....
...franklin.nelson@ft.com...
...After leaving home, mother and son were rejected by refuges because of their skin colour, but help arrived via a local church....
...Downstairs in the church-turned-community centre, women and girls put the last touches to vibrant feather backpacks. Upstairs, a rehearsal by steel pan players produces a deep, rhythmic sound....
...Initially based in a Chicago church, they were famed on the gospel circuit as “God’s greatest hitmakers”....
...There’s Alice, who cherishes church and cooking for her loved ones; Adel, whose son Warren is trying to move on from a spell in prison, and her sisters Carol and Melissa....
...She wrote one as a child for her church but credits a production of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers, which she saw as a teenager, with really sparking her interest....
...“He’s not the candidate of the never-Trumpers, he’s a threat from within the Trump coalition,” Franklin tells me....
...Even Benjamin Franklin’s invention of the seemingly innocuous lightning rod was initially opposed by Church elders fearing it was interfering with the “artillery of heaven”....
...In the beginning, there was the church. For 80-year-old Otis Williams, the sole surviving original member of The Temptations, the church was in Texas....
...People forget the golf-playing innocuousness of Dwight Eisenhower, the caution and barely middlebrow inner life of Franklin Roosevelt....
...The tensions between his new life and his old — his absent father, his God-fearing mother and his church-dominated past — begin to assume literal form as a gospel choir shows up and takes up residence along...
...Aretha Franklin could sing anything, but her starting point was God. The high-gloss biopic Respect duly finds her as a child — played by Skye Dakota Turner — already uplifting souls in church....
...In Sprakers, a trailside church offered us free water, snacks and shelter....
...Others just called it the Church of Peloton....
...Pension groups including the Church of England Pensions Board, Scottish Widows, BT Pension Scheme and Nest are also signed up....
...It’s still “pretty church and state”, said Robert Eccles, an expert on sustainability reporting and strategies at the University of Oxford....
...“Neither the classical civilian law nor the doctrine of the Catholic Church have ever said that liberal democracy is the only permissible form of government,” he says....
...Bankers, investors and other hard-charging finance types were among the early converts to what some call “the Church of Peloton”....
...“We must keep our eyes on the prize, which is the real economy,” says the global head of sustainability at Franklin Templeton, the asset manager....
...My third guest is the singer Aretha Franklin, lifelong hero of my playlists. Franklin disliked being interviewed, but there was nothing she couldn’t say in music....
...On the weekends, we’d go to church and dress in traditional clothes. We kind of led this double life as Nigerians and as black American kids.”...
...In the 155-sq metre penthouse suite, the hot tub is overlooked by an austere St Paul on the facade of the church next door....
...“I don’t want to sow divisions among families, among my family” — her uncle Franklin Graham is a high-profile Trump supporter....
...Only the second Catholic US president, Mr Biden attends church regularly. He infuses some of his speeches with scripture and cited Saint Augustine in his inaugural address....
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