 know that among Christians the tradition of giving Christmas gifts came from the story of the Wise Men bringing gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the infant Jesus.
While only 5 percent of people could name all the Ten Commandments, 16 percent couldn’t name any.
Despite the success of the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 57 percent knew nothing about Joseph and his brothers.
Another said David and Goliath was the name of a ship, while 57 percent were unable to talk accurately about the stilling of the storm, when Jesus calmed the Sea of Galilee.
Knowledge of the Bible is declining particularly in the under-45 age group.
Half of the under-45 population could not give accurate information about Samson and Delilah, compared to a quarter of over-45-year-olds.
Similarly, 33 percent of under-45-year-olds couldn’t name anything about the feeding of the 5,000, compared to 12 percent of over-45-year-olds.
—Reported by Erica Richards, Adventist World intern, with information from Durham College.White House aides have been told to decide before the end of January whether they intend to leave the administration or stay through the November midterm elections, an official said, a deadline intended to help bring a sense of order to an anticipated staffing exodus.
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Kelly has been trying to take the reins of staffing in the West Wing since his elevation last summer. But the task has taken on heightened urgency.
“Kelly is eating bullets every day by himself and doesn’t have a lot of help,” said one person familiar with the personnel situation. “He needs reinforcements.”
‘Doesn’t it feel like a decade?’ added to the fatigue.
“It’s been a year, but doesn’t it feel like a decade?” a senior administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive nature of the personnel shifts..
McGahn, who is a potential witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, has compelling legal reasons to stay at the White House, a person familiar with the matter said, despite the President’s level of satisfaction.
McMaster, an active duty three-star Army general, served as a commandeering influence in the West Wing. But he has clashed with Trump over policy in Afghanistan and Iran.
The White House did not respond to a CNN request for comment.
Departing aides would join Dina Powell, the deputy national security adviser who announced her departure last year. An alum of the Bush administration, Powell was one of the only top-level aides with experience working in a White House. She’s expected to remain a participant in senior adviser Jared Kushner’s Middle East efforts, including joining Vice President Mike Pence on a trip to the region next week.
Other staffers who have departed, or who are expected to: deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn, who is joining the private sector; Jeremy Katz, Cohn’s deputy at the National Economic Council; Sean Cairncross, a senior adviser who Trump nominated to head the Millennium Challenge Corporation; and Omarosa Manigault-Newman, who was dismissed from her job as communications director at the Office of Public Liaison.
Gary Cohn, the National Economic Council chairman whose departure has been a constant subject of speculation since August, is still weighing whether to remain in his post, and for how long, people who have spoken with him say. He has committed internally to helping shepherd through an infrastructure plan, though it’s not clear for how long. He declared on Saturday he was “happy” in his job when asked by Trump in front of reporters at Camp David.
Potentially in Trump’s sights to replace Cohn, should he leave: Larry Kudlow, the conservative commentator, who speaks regularly with Trump and advised the White House on their tax reform efforts.
Empty benches
Grueling hours, cramped offices and political warfare take sizable tolls on aides’ personal and family lives. That reality has been exacerbated during Trump’s first year in office, which was marked by chaos, internal backbiting and the constant specter of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
Unlike previous presidents, however, Trump has alienated large swaths of Republicans who might otherwise leap at the opportunity to work at the White House. Some of Trump’s allies, along with establishment Republicans, have voiced worry that a second wave of operatives and policy staffers does not appear to be waiting on the bench as aides announce their departures.
“There are still a lot of people who have said that they are unwilling to work in the White House and there are a lot of people that the White House is unwilling to have come in,” said longtime Republican operative Doug Heye.
Trump’s current team consists of “all qualified people who are trying to do the best for their country,” Heye added, but it may be hard for the White House to find a stable of loyal people waiting in the wings to take over for them.
A wide array of GOP hands declined to join the administration when Trump was elected, either because they had denounced Trump as a candidate and weren’t welcome in the West Wing or because they privately believed associating themselves with him would damage their careers.
A year later, those concerns have not abated. Trump is still adamant that the Republicans who criticized him the loudest not be awarded with jobs in his West Wing. And political careerists’ concerns about the wisdom of joining the administration haven’t been assuaged by a chaotic year, which is culminating with a debate over the President’s mental fitness.
Another factor giving potential hires pause is the ongoing Russia investigation, which has led to four indictments and could soon include an interview with Trump. Some of those who might otherwise work for Trump view a White House job as a potential “ticket to the grand jury,”one person familiar with the staffing challenges said.
Gaping political hole.
Source: CNN (Jeff Zeleny, Kevin Liptak, Dana Bash and Dan Merica)
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