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DuBois leaving White House faith-based post
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1218Lauren Markoe | Feb 7, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) Longtime White House aide Joshua DuBois, who heads the White House office focused on the intersection of religion and public policy, will step down on Friday (Feb. 8), President Obama announced Thursday.
Obama, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, asked DuBois to lead his White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships in 2009 when the Pentecostal reverend was 26, and hoped DuBois could sustain the ties he had helped forge between Obama and religious groups during the 2008 presidential campaign.
DuBois will teach at New York University starting later in the year, according to White House officials, and also plans to write a book based on the inspirational messages he sent to Obama daily.
“Every morning he sends me via email a daily meditation — a snippet of Scripture for me to reflect on,” Obama told the more than 3,000 people gathered for the annual bipartisan prayer breakfast. “And it has meant the world to me.”
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