The Blackberry Christian

After more than a year in office some in the media are noting that the Obama Family still doesn't have a Washington D.C. church:

If church attendance is one measure of a man's faith, then President Obama may appear to have lost some of his. The first family, once regular churchgoers, have publicly attended services in Washington just three times in the past year, by ABC News' count, even bypassing the pews on Christmas Day.

Obama quit Chicago's embattled Trinity United Church of Christ months before taking office in 2008 and has not formally joined a new one in his new hometown.

But sources familiar with the president's personal life say Obama remains a faithful Christian while in the White House, practicing his beliefs regularly in private with family and the aid of his BlackBerry.

I'm gonna cut him a little slack on this. Presidential movements are very complicated things and having him attend a church every week would be enormously disruptive to whatever congregation he chose. Everyone would have to go through metal detectors, special security equipment would have to be installed at the church, and frankly I think Obama doesn't think it's worth the hassle.

I tend to agree. There are other ways to worship rather than go to a specific building.