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...most Rev. Peter Akinola of Nigeria was in New York City late in January making one of his increasingly frequent forays into what he once would have considered enemy territory. Only journalists from religious publications were invited to cover the occasion, at Manhattan's swank Metropolitan Club--which probably suited the Archbishop, who has become wary of the mainstream press since a December New York Times story that advisers feel wrongly portrayed him as a homophobe. But a friend of the Nigerian primate's told TIME that Akinola received a standing ovation. The actual guest of honor was a Christian...
...became a bishop in 1989, Akinola developed Nigeria's hewn-from-the-forest capital, Abuja, into a great Anglican center. Later, he habitually sent bishops to non-Christian areas to preach the Gospel. Muslims sometimes responded violently, but the church gained a presence in the north. Notes the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, a well-connected Episcopal rector who counts Akinola as a friend: "They give witness at great cost, and it obviously touches people," who become Anglicans. The denomination leaped to the forefront of Nigerian Christianity, and Akinola became a civic as well as a religious voice, denouncing the country...
Such is the view through the skewed and foggy lens of segregation apologists—one of the many groups with which Senator Barack H. Obama has to contend come election time. Following a luncheon speech given by Obama recently to an overwhelmingly white and approbatory audience, Rev. B. Herbert Martin, who served as a pastor to Chicago’s first black mayor in the 1980s, told The Washington post of his concerns over which group Obama would identify himself with come campaigning time: “Will [Obama] continue to be an African American, or will he become...
...Rev. Peter J. Gomes is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, posts he has held since 1974, four years after he came to Harvard. He teaches Religion 1513 “The History of Harvard and Its Presidents...
...then came Joe Biden. On Wednesday, announcing his run for President, he praised his Senate colleague and presidential rival Barack Obama as "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," and declared that this was a first for African American presidential candidates. The Rev. Al Sharpton, who ran for president in 2004, informed Biden, who called to apologize, that he takes a bath every day. Sharpton is good at moments like this. He manages to declare himself available for compensatory pandering, without pretending that he doesn't get the joke. But generally, the first thing that happens when...