http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/trinityucc/ en-us Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:51:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299800/posts July 23, 2009 Is Obama Re-Establishing 'Black Street Cred?' C. Edmund Wright Nothing was as surreal about last night's press conference on healthcare as was the mention of the incident at Harvard regarding African American Studies Department Head Professor Gates and the "white cop." Not only did this seem oddly out of place, but it is instructive that the President admitted to both "not knowing the facts" yet obviously he sided with the black professor over the white cop. Allow me to submit the following theory: The President was trying to re-establish his "black street cred" a tad. As we... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299800/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:51:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2244280/posts Obama and theology of liberation Exclusive: Hilmar von Campe revisits Rev. Jeremiah Wright's relationship with president -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 04, 2009 1:00 am Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The naïve American public and their dumb political leaders believe that Barack Hussein Obama has cleared his past with leaving the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and stating that he has severed "outraged" and "insulted" his relation with the then senior pastor of that church. In reality, however, this close relationship of 20 years, which I don't think is broken, makes clear who he is and where his philosophy is rooted. When you... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2244280/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 03:38:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2191154/posts Back in May, when the furor over Jeremiah Wright threatened to derail the Obama campaign, the candidate mournfully explained his decision to leave the controversial Trinity United Church of Christ. "We don't want to have to answer for everything that's stated in a church," Obama said. "On the other hand, we don't want to have a church subjected to the scrutiny that a presidential campaign legitimately undergoes." After Obama parted from Wright, the preacher and Trinity United became the campaign issue that dared not speak its name. The Weekley Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2191154/posts#comment Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:55:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152825/posts Rev. Jeremiah Wright was a voice crying in the wilderness that the mainstream media and middle class America weren't quite ready for and megachurch pastor Rick Warren is an ignorant evangelical rube who isn't totally without hope, given his awareness of AIDS and other favored liberal causes. That's essentially what Eleanor Clift preached to her choir in her December 19 "Capitol Letter" column, "Choosing a Church: Obama's next big decision -- and its implications." Wrote Sister Eleanor (emphasis mine): Black religious leaders did not stand up for Wright even as they understood and sympathized with the prophetic theology he was... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152825/posts#comment Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:57:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144635/posts For the first time since his retirement last spring, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. returned to the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ this morning with two goals: glorifying God and vilifying the media. In honor of Trinity's 47th anniversary, Wright preached Sunday worship services in place of Rev. Otis Moss III, who was attending his father's farewell from the pulpit of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland. Citing the revelation to Mary by the angel Gabriel that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God, Wright said Mary's disbelief was similar to the doubts... Chicago Breaking news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144635/posts#comment Sun, 7 Dec 2008 23:51:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131564/posts (CNSNews.com) – President-elect Barack Obama said in 2004 – while he was a state legislator running for a U.S. Senate seat – that he attended services at Trinity United Church of Christ every week. This is in contrast to what Obama, as a presidential candidate, said this year after controversial anti-American remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright surfaced. Obama then told news outlets that he did not attend the church frequently and was not aware of Wright’s comments. The comments from Obama about his church attendance appeared in the transcript of an interview posted Tuesday on the religious news Web... cnsnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131564/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:13:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129191/posts His name was invoked at church services nationwide on Sunday, but President-elect Obama didn't attend any of them. He went to the gym instead. Obama doesn't have a church in Chicago since he severed ties in April with his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. And his decision on which church to attend when he moves to Washington will undoubtedly be closely watched. When he left Trinity United Church of Christ in May, Obama said his family would look for a new congregation. Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Sunday that the president-elect hadn't yet picked a church. He knows... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129191/posts#comment Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:58:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129019/posts At Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side, where President-elect Barack Obama embraced Christianity, the congregation rejoiced today and shouted, "Yes, We did!" Hundreds of worshipers packed into the sanctuary for a joyous service that celebrated the church's role in the spiritual awakening of a future president. Trinity's pastor, Rev. Otis Moss III, said history would note that Trinity was the holy place where "God stirred a young man's soul and put him on the path to the presidency." "You have much to be proud of this morning," Moss said. "We rejoice today." In his memoirs and campaign... CHicago News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129019/posts#comment Sun, 9 Nov 2008 23:11:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109182/posts Senior advisers think John McCain should attack Barack Obama's ties to his former pastor. He won't. McCain has refused to do it. The main reason, according to two aides who did not want to be named discussing private conversations with the candidate: any attack could be viewed as racially insensitive—or stir up racist sentiments—and that gets personal for McCain. He has not forgotten the racial smear directed at his own family during the South Carolina primary in 2000, when he ran against George W. Bush. Back then, supporters of Bush (their precise identities were never known) papered cars outside churches... newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109182/posts#comment Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:50:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108753/posts Viewer comment: That guy's a maniac. And I'm not talking about the good type of maniac. YouTube YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108753/posts#comment Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:58:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108462/posts A group targeting Barak Obama's campaign have launched a series of television ads in many key markets. The title of the ads are "Obama's Wrong Values"; "Obama's Awful High Tax Policies"; "Hillary Clinton Rips Barack Obama" and "Obama's Patriotism Problem." These ads are paid for by a group called Our Country Deserves Better PAC, a Sacramento, Calif.-based group formed to campaign against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. PAC claims ads are airing in Nevada, Colorado and Michigan, with a total ad buy of more than $100,000. The ads are the work of an independent group and are not produced by... WACH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108462/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:39:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101816/posts Tape Discovered of Obama Listening to Rev. Wright Sermon Here. Okay...I use the word "discovered" a bit loosely--the way one might "discover" a Big Mac at McDonald's. But now that I have your attention, the point is that most voters don't have a clue that Obama writes in his memoir that the very first time he attended Trinity United Church, he heard Rev. Wright rant that "white folks' greed runs a world in need." As you may recall, Obama said, following Rev. Wright's infamous press club appearance in April, that "The person I saw yesterday was not the person that... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101816/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:51:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2097656/posts Content of "disappeared" Trinity United Church of Christ bulletins could cost Obama the election. Napoleon's general Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle once told an associate, “My friend, any hussar who does not die by thirty is a blackguard.” We would not have appointed someone with this attitude to a command during the horse and musket era of warfare, because cavalry was too expensive an instrument to throw away in swashbuckling, glorious, but suicidal enterprises. Our ideal commanders would have instead had enough common sense to stay well away from intact infantry formations that presented solid hedges of fixed bayonets, but enough... The Husaria: For Our Freedom and Yours http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2097656/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 23:32:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089147/posts Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts: 1. Commitment to God 2. Commitment to the Black Community 3. Commitment to the Black Family 4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education 5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence 6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic 7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and... Trinity United Church of Christ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089147/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:46:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086945/posts Election 2008: Since we first drew attention to Barack Obama's Afrocentric church a full 12 months ago, other media have weighed in. And additional disturbing information has come to light. At the core of the Democratic front-runner's faith — whether lapsed Muslim, new Christian or some mixture of the two — is African nativism, which raises political issues of its own. In 1991, when Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, he pledged allegiance to something called the Black Value System, which is a code of non-Biblical ethics written by blacks, for blacks. Wright makes the Rev.... By Investers Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086945/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:25:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078265/posts Barack Obama’s former pastor has been cavorting with another man’s wife, whom he romanced while she worked at a church in Dallas run by one of his disciples, according to a report in the New York Post. Elizabeth Payne, 37, told the Post that she and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, 67, had a sexual relationship this year and that she was fired from her job when the affair was made public. Payne had been working at Friendship-West Baptist Church as a secretary to the Rev. Frederick Haynes III, a longtime Wright protege. FOXNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078265/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:54:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072081/posts Wright returns. Says Obama to be first U.S. president to “have a black woman sleeping” in White House “legally” “Uncle” Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright, the former pastor of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)’s former church, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago (both tossed under the Obama bus), made an appearance today at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in downtown Houston, Athena Jones at MSNBC’s First Read reported. Mike Snyder of the Houston Chronicle wrote that Wright has been “a regular guest minister at Wheeler Avenue for more than 15 years” although a “scheduled appearance in March was canceled because of... The Real Barack Obama http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072081/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:42:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2057025/posts Barack Obama:The 2004 "God Factor" Interview Transcript At 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, 2004, when I was the religion reporter (I am now its religion columnist) at the Chicago Sun-Times, I met then-State Sen. Barack Obama at Café Baci, a small coffee joint at 330 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, to interview him exclusively about his spirituality. Our conversation took place a few days after he'd clinched the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat that he eventually won. We spoke for more than an hour. He came alone. He answered everything I asked without notes or hesitation. The... The Dude Abides http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2057025/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 21:10:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045421/posts An interesting nugget from Newsweek's cover story on Obama and his faith: As young marrieds, Barack and Michelle (who also didn't go to church regularly as a child) went to church fairly often-two or three times a month. But after their first child, Malia, was born, they found making the effort more difficult. "I don't know if you've had the experience of taking young, squirming children to church, but it's not easy," he says. "Trinity was always packed, and so you had to get there early. And if you went to the morning service, you were looking at-it just was... americanthinker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045421/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:43:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036649/posts The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the Chicago priest suspended for two weeks after a sermon mocking Sen. Hillary Clinton, returned to his pulpit on Sunday like a fighter ready to take back the title. In an exclusive interview, Pfleger told "Good Morning America" that he does not "apologize for being passionate, I don't apologize for being free." "But I apologize when my passion or my freeness and my flawedness of character get in the way of a content which is much more important to me," he told "GMA's" Robin Roberts. Pfleger gave the controversial Clinton speech on May 25 as a... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036649/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:02:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2033743/posts Donald Young, a vibrant, charismatic choir director at one of Chicago's largest open and affirming black congregations, Trinity United Church of Christ, was found shot to death this past Sunday in his home. Young,47, was a longtime member of Trinity's choir, initially singing bass and then moving up the ranks to become one of its most electrifying and popular directors. He was also a faithful attendee at the conferences of the Gospel Music Workshop of America. The details about why and exactly how he died remain unclear; there is, however, one story that emerges with some semblance of clarity: a... GBMNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2033743/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:41:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032098/posts Like losers in a shell game, most of us got snookered into looking under the wrong nutshell regarding the inflammatory and racist sermon delivered last month by the Rev. Michael Pfleger during his guest appearance at Barack Obama's church in Chicago. The media focused the spotlight on what Pfleger, a visiting Catholic priest, said about Hillary Clinton from the pulpit at Trinity United Church of Christ, prompting Obama to end his 20-plus year association with the church. "When Hillary was crying and people said that was put on, I really don't believe it was put on," proclaimed Pfleger, feigning tears... The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032098/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:04:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028710/posts If everybody in America saw this video -- that really makes it clear, in his own words, how much Barack Obama despises white people -- he'd lose in a landslide. PS: Just in case you were wondering, this was apparently put together by a Hillary supporter and it is extremely powerful. (The video is at the link) Right Wing News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028710/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:33:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026736/posts Who's Tony Rezko? William Ayers? Few Americans know, but they probably will by Election Day. Rezko is a Chicago businessman, convicted of more than a dozen charges this week. Ayers is a professor - and former member of the radical Weather Underground. Both have ties to Barack Obama and may well show up in anti-Obama ads you'll be seeing before long. These days, presidential candidates can expect to have every personal relationship, new or ancient, inspected like a crime scene on "CSI." Then, if there's political hay to be made, a version of the details is quickly out. Republican John... WJLA-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026736/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:39:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026625/posts UPDATE: Much like written words don't do justice to Jeremiah Wright's sermons, the video must be watched to be believed. Pfleger is introduced as "a friend of Trinity", and then the YouTube skips ahead to one section: I must now to address the one who says, 'don't hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.' But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did! And unless you are ready to give up the benefits — Throw away your 401 fund! [sic] Throw away your trust fund! Throw away all the money that been put away in the company... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026625/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:26:11 GMT