Journalist, columnist and author Jo Piazza writes on topics ranging from entertainment to religion to women’s issues around the globe. She began her career as a staff writer at the New York Daily News and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Gotham, The Daily Beast and Slate. Her first book, a hard hitting look at the business of being famous, will be published later this year. Jo regularly appears as a commentator on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and NPR.

Ex-Governor Goes Behind Bars

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — On a recent Sunday morning, a former governor of New Jersey stood before a predominantly African-American church congregation here, tapping a Bible on his thigh to the choir’s rendition of “Blessed Be the Rock.” In the pews before him sat a group of ex-convicts he knew well.

When the music stopped inside Bethesda Baptist Church, James McGreevey spoke from the pulpit in a full-throated sermon complete with dramatic gesticulations and the occasional “amen.” His subject: struggle.

“He almost got to sound like he was a Baptist at the end,” said Pastor Vincent L. Thomas, the leader of the congregation….
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