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Omarosa talks about entering seminary
Omarosa Manigault Stallworth is a person who knows herself and knows how the public perceives her.
She is completely comfortable calling herself one of the most successful reality television personalities ever, after appearance on “The Apprentice,” “Celebrity Apprentice” and “The Surreal Life.”
The public calls her a villainess, an in-your-face, nasty celebrity and terms much worse than that. She knows it, embraces it and has attained success because of it.
How can that same person enter the ministry here at United Theological Seminary in Dayton on Monday?
“I’ve been feeling as though I’ve been going through a transformation over the past couple of years,” she said in a telephone interview on Friday. “You can lose yourself in this business. You lose yourself in Hollywood, lose yourself in fame. If you’re as fortunate as I am, you have people in your life who will work to ground you.”
After many meetings, praying and counseling with her pastor in Washington, D.C., Stallworth, 35, decided to enter the seminary.
She is not, as many blaring Internet headlines say, going to be a preacher or a chaplain. That is undecided.
“My goal is really to be obedient,” she said. “I’m going to seminary to find out what my role will be in the church.”
Being in the seminary and living in Dayton will not preclude her from continued entertainment work. Just this Thursday, she met with reality TV producers about a project. She won’t change who she is in entertainment due to the seminary, but she admits there might be “modifications.”
“The direction that reality (TV) is going will push the envelopes of anything you have ever seen,” she said. “A couple of the offers made me blush and that is hard to do”
For now, she is a student nervous about her first day of class, deciding between a briefcase or a backpack. The Youngstown native, who also received her undergraduate degree from Central State University, is looking forward to Ohio, too.
“I cannot wait to watch the leaves change and see the snow fall again,” she said.
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By dhampton100
August 14, 2009 6:43 PM | Link to this
She sounds like the typical confused young person who hasn’t found her “sealegs” in life yet. Slow bloomer? No doubt but she is typical of the ‘still growing up at 35” American that has become all too common in this age. If previous generations had taken so long to grow up we would not be the great country we are now. We, too would still be just ‘growing up”!
By Speedzzter
August 14, 2009 7:12 PM | Link to this
These people who don’t believe Omarosa could legitimately become a vocational servant of God are vastly ignorant of history. Here’s what some notable “preachers” were before they followed God’s call: Saul of Tarsus (later known as Paul or St. Paul: executor of Chrisitans. Augustine of Hippo: Pagan, Manichean and father of an illegitimate child. John Calvin: a humanist lawyer. John Newton (Abolitionist and writer of Amazing Grace): Slave ship captain. John Bunyan: Bunyan describes himself in his book “Grace Abounding” as having led an abandoned life in his youth, and as having been morally reprehensible as a result. John Wesley: The early biographer Tyerman said that the boy went to Charterhouse a saint but became negligent of his religious duties and left a sinner. D.L. Moody: “I have seen few persons whose minds were spiritually darker than was his when he came into my Sunday School class” — Edward Kimball
By Liberals playground
August 14, 2009 10:36 PM | Link to this
United Theological Seminary will enroll anyone with a dollar in his or her pocket.Just saw a recent tape of her and still dirty mouthed and minded.GO HOME OMAROSA
By Pharrell
August 14, 2009 10:45 PM | Link to this
It’s disappointing to see a smart, career-oriented woman veer off into the realm of the supernatural but I suppose it makes her happy. Maybe she intends to use the church as the launch pad for a big payday down to the road, as many others have done before her.
By a voice
August 15, 2009 12:20 AM | Link to this
Humility comes in all shapes and sizes. That’s what it takes to do what she’s doing. Enjoy your stay.Blessings…——from a Political Conservative that is a Christian.
By flipper
August 15, 2009 8:10 AM | Link to this
Yeah, and Hugh Hefner is going to become a priest.
By ObviousOmorosa
August 15, 2009 9:38 AM | Link to this
can you say PUBLICITY STUNT?
By Heather Gregory
August 15, 2009 11:45 AM | Link to this
Seriously?!?!?! She is gonna use her “belief” in God to promote herself some more? She is disgusting and needs to go away. If she was truly wanting to find her place in the church her reality days would be over. I find it an odd coincidence that she is working on a deal for a new show the same time she is entering the seminary.
By Pharrell
August 15, 2009 12:25 PM | Link to this
She knows how to promote herself and make money. Religion is a fantastic way to leverage both.
By Maureen
August 15, 2009 12:26 PM | Link to this
Let’s be positive. Anybody who goes to school is bound to learn something, and nobody goes to any seminary for the fun of it.
By Don't care
August 15, 2009 2:03 PM | Link to this
She is a nasty, rude, hateful person that deserves the same treatment that she has given everyone else….She will be lucky if she doesn’t catch fire when she walks thru the church door!