On a bright Easter morning in Washington, President Obama and his family attended the Shiloh Baptist Church. Greeted by applause and a choir singing “Total Praise,” the first family couldn’t help but stand out in the second row pew no matter how much they might have wanted their worship to be intimate and without the trappings of the presidency.

"The Secret Service said, just be ourselves," the church's pastor, Dr. Wallace Charles Smith, told the congregation, according to the Associated Press. “This is a place of worship,” Dr. Smith added as he asked people not to take photographs. Obama declined an invitation to speak.

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