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Why did Oprah leave Obama's church?

Newsweek magazine has just published a new article purporting to explain why Oprah Winfrey left Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago years before the Jeremiah Wright controversy began. But Oprah's decision to quit the church long ago has led some critics to wonder aloud why Barack Obama didn't leave too.

Jeremiah Wright fires back at his critics

He's back. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright rounded off his weekend media tour with a nationally televised speech to 10,000 attendees at an NAACP dinner in Detroit on Sunday. It was the third time since Friday that the minister has drawn headlines for his remarks.

The Pastor as Prophet

petergomes.jpgIt may surprise many in white America that there are a lot of Jeremiah Wrights out there...To criticize America is not a sin, but it is a sin to mistake America for God, and it is both sin and dereliction of duty to fail to note the difference.

 

Rev. Peter J. Gomes is the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church at Harvard University.

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