Sparks are flying in the 2008 culture wars. The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, leader of the largest Methodist congregation in the country, launched a websi...
236.com | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama and John McCain are now tied two for two in the race to see who can get the most inflammatory Pastors in their corner. This week we were ...
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
CHICAGO — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that he was "deeply disappointed" by a supporter's sermon at his church t...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
The media is once again in a feeding frenzy. Its latest victim is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in...
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
Obama, riven with quiet anger, stood there, and with certitude said "enough is enough." Still, you can see how painful it is for Obama -- how it goes against his intrinsic sense of loyalty and history -- to finally jettison the mad Reverend Wright.
Washington Post | E.J. Dionne Jr. | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
Let's ask the hard question about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Is he as far outside the African American mainstream as many of us would like to think?......
Jim David | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
At least Obama was trying, in his speech, to start a dialogue about the black elephant in the room. And that's more than any white politician has done.
Scott Kurashige | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
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.
Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
The shock-and-awe political chatter at Mahjong tables across South Florida does not augur well for Obama in a re-vote or in the general election.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
The emergence of controversial video-taped sermons by Barack Obama's longtime Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright, has produced an explosion of commentary...
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
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.
Byron Williams | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
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.
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...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
Video of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor and mentor to Barack Obama, has been posted. The Reverend defends his most famous constituent and attacks Hilla...
Wall Street Journal | Suzanne Sataline | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
On Christmas morning, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. compared presidential candidate Barack Obama's impoverished childhood to Jesus Christ's. "Barack knows ...
Washington Post | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics