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...bless America. God damn America!' THE REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT, Barack Obama's longtime pastor, preaching in 2003 about the nation's racist past. Critics later cited footage of the sermon as evidence of Obama's radical beliefs...
...through the hilly streets to city hall to cast early votes. Voters sang songs as they marched, waving banners that implored onlookers "Don't Wait 'Til the Battle's Over - Vote Now" and wearing inspirational T shirts. One of the leaders in this march was the Rev. Amos Brown, pastor of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco. He said his church was founded in 1852, the year Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published. "For us to come together in 2008 and lead other churches to city hall to vote after a Sunday worship service...
...June 2006 speech, Obama promised the AIPAC that Jerusalem would remain undivided. The next day he retracted this promise under fire from the President of the Palestinian National Authority. Obama’s former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, once condemned Israel as a “dirty word.” A Los Angeles Times article from April asserts that Obama’s close connection with Rashid Khalidi, a critic of Israeli policy and professor of arab studies at Columbia University, “has led some Palestinian leaders to believe that he might deal differently with the Middle...
...loving grandson could also be a judging one, as Obama showed in his Philadelphia speech on race early this year. He attempted to explain his relationship with his former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, by talking about another complicated relationship: "I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street...
Some churches' sites, like that of Flamingo Road Church in Cooper City, Fla., receive regular traffic year-round. Others, like the one from Impact Community Church in Elk Grove, Calif., draw visitors with specific sermon topics. Barry Smith, senior pastor at Impact, started an online confession board last spring to enhance his four-week sermon series on the theme of secrets. The idea, says Smith, "was not so much theological as psychological"--a way to aid people carrying the shame of long-held secrets. For at least two of his congregants, the effort was transformative. A former prison guard...