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Article: Just what are Oprah Winfrey's core beliefs?
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- January 20, 2007
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Faithful members of Oprah Winfrey's TV flock know what's happening
when guests start talking and their leader keeps interjecting the
occasional "Amen," "Preach it" or even, "Sister, I understand the
whole God connection!"
The host wants the guest to start "testifying," a confessional
process in which believers look for God's healing hand in life's hard
lessons. Winfrey learned all about this process as a girl back in the
Faith United Mississippi Baptist Church, where jealous peers often
called her "Miss Jesus."
Here's the irony, noted journalist Marcia Nelson, author of The
Gospel According to Oprah:
Winfrey has become a billionaire and one of the world's most
powerful women by baring her ...