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Democrats Were Never Anti-Religious

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home

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The right wing evangelical agenda was never a quest for freedom; it was a quest to deny it to others. This year might see significant political, and yes, spiritual growth among the evangelical voting population

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Obama's "Cultural Issues" At Play in Chicago

Christine Escobar | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home

Supporters of Fr. Pflegler believe street-level advocates bring about the change Obama speaks so eloquently about. To turn away from that in the face of shoddy criticism seems to second guess their work.

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Trinity United Church of Christ Is Taking it Hard

Michael Drucker | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

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If Wright Were White

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 04.30.2008 | Home

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In this election cycle, there was always going to be a Jeremiah Wright. In America, there are different standards. Black people are more quickly judged intemperate and arrogant and angry.

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Reverend Wright's Church Bulletins: On Philanthropy, Race, And Life In The Spotlight

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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On Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama distanced himself from his controversial former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, saying in part that he no longer recognize...

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Barack Obama's Test...And Ours

Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home

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The controversy with Rev. Wright, for better or worse politically, strips away the fantasy some voters may have entertained that Barack Obama was just a white man in blackface, utterly isolated and insulated from the racial struggles of the nation where he spent most of his life.

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Placing Reverend Wright's Sermons In Context

Lonnee Hamilton | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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Our media is in a terrible state when ordinary citizens doing a Google search can do a better job than some of the highest paid "journalists" in the country.

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TV Media's Willful Misunderstanding of Barack Obama's Race Speech

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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The very first thing that the controversy over Barack Obama's association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright highlights is the failure of the national, and still largely white, media to interest themselves in the black church.

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The Good Radical Within

Bill Parent | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home

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One of the most interesting things to me about a Barak Obama presidency is that he would bring with him, as an African American, an internalized awareness of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's indignation and anger.

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Obama's Theology Of Reconciliation And Perfection

Gene Koo | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home

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Obama offers a theology grounded in a process, not an outcome: to work out salvation with fear and trembling. His professed beliefs puts him at odds not only with the president, but his own pastor.

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Obama on Race vs. Romney on Religion

James Freedman | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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Many in the media noted Barack Obama's speech yesterday morning was reminiscent when Mitt Romney tried to address concerns about his Mormon faith. But is that comparison actually warranted?

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A More Perfect Union? Yes, We Can

Lecia Shorter | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home

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The infusion of race into the campaign of Senator Obama past yesterday will serve no purpose other than to continue to pour salt into a wound that has now been postured for healing, paving the path to a more perfect union.

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Barack, Jeremiah and Jesus

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.18.2008 | Home

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If Obama can help white America understand why he sat in the pews of Trinity Church in Chicago for twenty years, then he may be able to hold his near-grasp of the Democratic presidential nomination.

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Obama Was In Chicago The Morning Of Controversial Sermon

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

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A bit of campaign controversy broke out Monday morning, after Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign and members of the media pointed to a serious ...

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Obama's Crisis and MLK's Hard Truths

Scott Kurashige | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

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There is no Obama path to the presidency that does not require him to rise above charges that he is unpatriotic or that he is a black extremist.

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Obama's Minister Committed "Treason" But When My Father Said the Same Thing He Was a Republican Hero

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics

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When my late father, Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer, denounced America and called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr.

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Obama's Church Accuses Media Of Character Assassination

Politico | Posted 03.16.2008 | Media

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The Chicago church attended by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) issued a statement Sunday contending that coverage of his pastor's inflammatory statements a...

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Pastor's Remarks Spark Debate About Obama Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics

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The emergence of controversial video-taped sermons by Barack Obama's longtime Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright, has produced an explosion of commentary...

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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

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People like Rev. Jeremiah Wright don't speak for all blacks. We are not in lock step, no matter how much we all might like rap music.

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Jeremiah Wright's Influence on My Ministry

Byron Williams | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

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The Trinity United Church of Christ, under the leadership Rev. Wright, is an oasis in the wilderness of poverty, black on black crime, and under performing public schools that plague Chicago.

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Jeremiah Wright, Obama's Pastor, Prompts Candidate To Address Comments

Huffington Post | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

The appearance of video by Jeremiah Wright, pastor to Barack Obama, has caused a recent frenzy as both Democratic candidate struggle with the issue of...

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Obama Pastor's Sermons May Violate Tax Laws

Wall Street Journal | Suzanne Sataline | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics

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On Christmas morning, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. compared presidential candidate Barack Obama's impoverished childhood to Jesus Christ's. "Barack knows ...

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