At about 5 a.m. each day -- maybe a little later on weekends -- an email from the Rev. Bill Shillady arrives in Hillary Clinton's inbox.

The contents? A reading from Scripture. A devotional commentary. And a prayer. They're sometimes inspired by the headlines -- focusing recently, for example, on the role of women in the Bible.

"I know she reads them, because she responds to me," says Shillady, executive director of the United Methodist City Society in New York. "We've had some interesting emails back and forth about some of the concepts."

It's no secret that Clinton is a lifelong Methodist. But Shillady -- who officiated at Chelsea Clinton's wedding, led a memorial service for Clinton's mother, Dorothy Rodham, and gave the closing benediction at the Democratic National Convention -- feels that many people don't really know how much her faith "is a daily thing."