Word: jeremiah
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When Sen. Barack Obama severed ties with his Chicago church, most political observers saw the move as a way for the candidate to insulate himself from the controversies stirred by its retiring pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. But Trinity United Church of Christ does not have that kind of insulation. According to sources within Trinity, Wright, 66, who began the process of retirement two years ago, is resisting fully relinquishing his duties as senior pastor, hanging on to power in the church he helped build...
...Pope's statement about Obama's announcement was more than many other Trinity members were willing to divulge. For much of the year, since Obama emerged as a leading presidential candidate, and since clips of longtime Trinity pastor Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'s sermons appeared on YouTube, the church has weathered unprecedented scrutiny. There have been bomb threats. Reporters have brazenly called ailing Trinity members at hospices. So it's understandable that many members shooed away reporters - often by raising a hand, as if to say, "Don't even go there." In one incident Sunday, an 18-year...
...Wright and Wrong Finally, clarity on the Jeremiah Wright issue from Joe Klein [May 12]. Obama's rise promises a departure from the country's troubled wars over culture and race. Yes, Wright has done great things, but at a hefty price: despair and hopelessness about racism. People like Wright should be afraid of Barack Obama and his promise of change. Joseph Morriss, Chicago...
...little brazen for Obama to say his wife can't be a target when he uses her as a shield, like a charm against charges that his own biography is somehow too exotic, too alien, too Jeremiah Wright and not enough Norman Rockwell. In his telling, her life as a Chicago city worker's daughter whose family ate dinner together every night, who made it from public schools to the Ivy League to the long, twisting road to the White House, is a tribute to "an America that didn't just reward wealth but the work and the workers...
Wright and Wrong Finally, clarity on the Jeremiah Wright issue [May 12]. Yes, he has done great things, but at a hefty price: despair about racism. People like Wright should be afraid of Barack Obama's promise of change. Joseph Morriss, CHICAGO...