http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/blackchurch/ en-us Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:38:02 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049143/posts Is the Democratic Party suicidal? The head of the DNC's religious outreach, Leah Daughtry who, in addition to believing that God finds abortion acceptable (something I find hard to swallow even as an agnostic), is a believer in the same Marxist "Black Liberation Theology" preached by Reverend Wright. This from a glowing puff piece about Ms. Daughtry from the New York Times:Behind her as she preached, a simple wooden cross hung on a brick wall in the vaulted and sizable sanctuary of the church, which is headed by her father, Herbert Daughtry. A prison convert who served time in his... conservativepunk.com/nytimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049143/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:38:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041127/posts In an Apr. 10 interview with The Advocate magazine, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said "homophobic" messages are coming from the pulpits of black churches because "most African-American churches are still fairly traditional in their interpretations of Scripture." In the same interview, Obama praised the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor and long-time spiritual adviser, for being on the right side of the homosexual debate. ... Obama volunteered that his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was "very good on gay and lesbian issues." ... Black leaders and clregy reacted to Obama's remarks to The Advocate, saying they contradict the... CNSNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041127/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:22:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037431/posts Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, the minister who presided over the recent marriage of President Bush’s daughter Jenna, has launched a pro-Barack Obama Web site sharply critical of conservative stalwart James Dobson. Caldwell, leader of the largest Methodist congregation in the country, launched his “James Dobson Does Not Speak For Me” site a day after Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio program aired a statement charging that Obama distorted the Bible to fit “his own confused theology.” The site urges readers to sign a statement declaring that Dobson does not represent them. The statement reads in part: “James Dobson doesn't speak for... newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037431/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:41:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036935/posts The front page of Sunday’s Washington Post featured an article headlined "At Obama’s Former Church, Hurt Lingers: Black Congregations Feel Marginalized by Uproar." The story that followed by Post reporters Eli Saslow and Hamil Harris took a sympathetic tack toward the poor, poor Jeremiah Wright and his followers without making any attempt to address the bizarre statements that caused such controversy. America deserved 9/11 for its own terrorism? The federal government created AIDS for black genocide? At their most specific, it was defined simply as "a landslide of negative video" and "right-wing political attacks" that left Obama’s fellow believers "marginalized... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036935/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:43:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2034603/posts Harlem Pastor Calls Obama A Good House Negro… May 14, 2008 by P.Cash If People thought that Jeremiah Wright was out there, then they haven’t heard the liturgical stylings of the Honorable David Manning of ATLAH World Ministries, based in ATLAH, New York. (That’s the Name that God Gave Him for the Neighborhood of Harlem in Manhattan, By the Way..) Over the last couple of Months, Pastor Manning has shared some harsh words about Barack Obama across the pulpit, and many of them are posted on You Tube for all to see. The statements that he makes are so outlandish... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2034603/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:01:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034412/posts Barack Obama Gives Bishop TD Jakes Goose Bumps—Which Makes My Skin Crawl By Doug Giles You’re familiar with the icky chills, aren’t ‘cha? It’s that weird, tangible, frightening freeze you get when you wake up to the demon ghost of Leona Helmsley hovering over your bed in a Victoria’s Secret teddy at 3 AM or when you accidentally drink from the beer can your dipping buddy has been using for a spit cup. That’s the kind of tingly feeling I got when I read Jakes’ Barack goose bump bumbling gaffe. Goose bumps, Mr. Jakes? Please. Isn’t all this “Barack gives... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034412/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:59:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032171/posts Addressing a packed congregation at one of the city's largest black churches, Senator Barack Obama invoked his own absentee father to deliver a sharp message to black men, saying "we need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032171/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:43:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031730/posts Two weeks after breaking with his long-time church after pastors there made inflammatory and anti-American sermons, Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama went to a new church on Sunday to discuss fatherhood. Obama, accompanied by his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, took part in Father's Day services near their house at the Apostolic Church of God -- a large, predominantly black church in the South Side of Chicago. This was Obama's first time attending a church service since he announced last month that he had quit Trinity United Church of Christ, which he had attended for 16 years,... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031730/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:59:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031620/posts Barack Obama asks fathers to take responsibility By Alex Spillius in Washington Last Updated: 12:51AM BST 16/06/2008 Senator Barack Obama has called on black American men to accept their responsibilities as fathers and to stop "acting like boys instead of men". Barack Obama speaking at the Apostolic Church of God In a Father's Day speech at a black church in his home city of Chicago, the Democratic presidential nominee listed the disadvantages faced by single parent families in the community, and urged men to realise that their responsibility as a father does not end at conception. "If we are honest... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031620/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:49:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031584/posts CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Barack Obama celebrated Father's Day by calling on black fathers, who he said are "missing from too many lives and too many homes," to become active in raising their children. "They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it," the Democratic presidential candidate said Sunday at a largely black church in his hometown. Reminding the congregation of his firsthand experience growing up without a father, Obama said he was lucky to have loving grandparents who helped his mother. He got support, second chances... cnnpolitics.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031584/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:33:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031567/posts Obama headed to church this Father’s Day Sunday in his hometown of Chicago — the first time he’s been to church since he severed relations with his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. The Obama family attended services at Chicago’s Apostolic Church of God, one of the city’s largest African American congregations and just six and a half miles from Obama’s former place of worship, Trinity Church of Christ. Longtime church leader Bishop Arthur Brazier greeted his “good friend” warmly and touchingly noted, “[Obama] has done something [in] this country that I never thought I would live to see.” He continued,... FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031567/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:26:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030111/posts Dreams of My Father ... Page 293 (paperback edition) Obama remembers a sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright: "... It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-a-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere ... That's the world! On which hope sits." And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpesville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy... Slate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030111/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:11:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029578/posts Barack Obama discussed Darfur, the Iraq war, gay rights, abortion and other issues Tuesday with Christian leaders, including conservatives who have been criticized for praising the Democratic presidential candidate. Bishop T.D. Jakes, a prominent black clergyman who heads a Dallas megachurch, said Obama took questions, listened to participants and discussed his "personal journey of faith." The discussion "went absolutely everywhere," Jakes told The Associated Press, and "just about every Christian stripe was represented in that room." Jakes, who does not endorse candidates and said he also hopes to meet with Republican presidential candidate John McCain, said some participants clearly have... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029578/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:06:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027339/posts The Rev. Jeffrey Bryan has posted campaign signs for "Obama in '08" and displayed snapshots of the presumed Democratic presidential nominee visiting his Newark, N.J., church. At times he wears a T-shirt emblazoned with Barack Obama's face. That's as far as Bryan will go — there will be no sermons peppered with "Vote Obama!" "It's a historical time for black people. We cannot ignore what's going on," Bryan said. Yet, he added, "you can't tell people who to vote for." The pulpit plays a powerful role in shaping political views in the black community. During the civil rights era, for... AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027339/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:19:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022534/posts What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time." - Karl Marx; essay, The Jewish Question; 1844 Not having a theology degree, nor even a Ph.D., and being, too, a bit naïve regarding matters of high-brow philosophical currents throughout the ages, I have to admit that when I first read Karl Marx' essay, The Jewish Question, I was actually stunned by its contents. First... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022534/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 17:55:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026433/posts From the outset of his campaign, Barack Obama has declared himself to be a Christian. But the Black Liberaion Theology he discovered at Trinity United differs from conventional Christianity. American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026433/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:00:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024466/posts Obama's closest religious advisors -- Fr. (Michael) Pfleger, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, and Illinois State Sen. James Meeks, who moonlights as the pastor of Chicago's Salem Baptist Church... YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024466/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:26:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2019543/posts Manning in this "episode" warns white Americans against supporting Barack Obama, claiming that if Obama is elected, black America will "trash white Americans all the way back to the Mississippi plantations". Rev. Manning states that black Americans as a whole have a tendency to bite the hand that feeds them, and hate to hear the truth about themselves. Watch the whole Video, he makes some valid points. link to video You Tube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2019543/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 04:22:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2016340/posts elf-appointed Elder, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, spoke out in Chicago this week on the Rev. Wright controversy. Desmond Tutu believes that Wright says the things that all black Americans want to say... Really? The Chicago Tribune and LGF Quick Links reported: "You are a crazy country," Tutu, 76, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, said in an interview with the Tribune. "You're a country that has I think some of the most generous people I've ever come across in the world." But he chided Americans for getting "very, very upset" with the pastor of Sen. Barack Obama,... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2016340/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 15:04:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2015917/posts Rev. Lainie Dowell -- On Faith -- The Rev. Otis Moss has taken over leadership of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. For those who think Moss will offer a change in philosophy to the much-maligned Rev. Jeremiah Wright, they are grossly mistaken. Moss preaches ... RFFM.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2015917/posts#comment Wed, 14 May 2008 18:34:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2014016/posts The focus of media attention is [on Rev. Wright’s] “God damn America” sermon. But that’s not the main conclusion of his theology. The main conclusion of his theology is his call for gigantic reparations payments to African-Americans by the Federal government. This would be the largest government welfare project since Medicare… Rev. Wright is an advocate of what is known as black theology. Black theology is a variant of the radical movement known as liberation theology, which is an extreme version of the social gospel. Rev. Wright is open about his advocacy of black theology-liberation theology… They all preach the... NationalEconomist.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2014016/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 13:41:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012280/posts Baldilocks is black, female and conservative. Responding to a column by John Derbyshire at NRO, She writes:...columnists Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom at did their homework on Black Liberation Theology and the "black church": Most black churchgoers belong to congregations that are overwhelmingly African-American and are affiliated with one of the historically black religious denominations such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) or the National Baptist Convention. Rev. Wright's Trinity Church, on the other hand, is a predominantly black branch of a white denomination that is not part of "the African-American religious tradition." The United Church of Christ (known until... The Virginian/Baldilocks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012280/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 02:11:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010687/posts The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., under fire for statements that have embarrassed Senator Barack Obama’s campaign, has found staunch support in the pulpits of black churches around North Carolina. The people in the pews, however, are far less accepting. In interviews at churches in cities and towns including Charlotte, Greensboro, Lumberton and Goldsboro, ministers expressed the view that Mr. Obama and Mr. Wright had been attacked by a superficial and biased news media. Many said they were teaching Mr. Wright’s sermons in Bible study classes. They are delivering lectures on the roots of Mr. Wright’s style of ministry and... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010687/posts#comment Sat, 3 May 2008 14:36:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009576/posts Well, it is likely that Sen. Barack Obama won't be going back to Trinity United Church of Christ. Not after this. On Tuesday, Obama responded to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's ill-timed defense by condemning his former pastor's fresh comments as "ridiculous," "outrageous" and "appalling." "When he states and then amplifies such ridiculous proposition as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS, when he suggests that Minister Farrakhan somehow represents one of the greatest voices in the 20th and 21st century, when he equates the United States wartime effort with terrorism, then there are no excuses," Obama said during a... The Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009576/posts#comment Thu, 1 May 2008 07:25:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009408/posts I come from a religious tradition where we shout from the sanctuary and march on the picket line! Where we give God the glory and give the devil the blues! — Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Sunday night in Detroit. The black church in America has long lived between the glory and the blues, between the ecstasy of worship and the exigencies of politics. It is a place concerned with both the sacred and the profane, both a religious and a political institution. It is for that reason that an ambitious young Barack Obama first sought out Reverend Wright twenty years ago.... The National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009408/posts#comment Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:21:54 GMT