Blazing a trail for Barack Obama

Blazing a trail for Barack Obama

Source: Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada

Author: David Olive, Columnist

Date: 31 August, 2008

Forty years before Barack Obama, chosen last week as the Democratic Party's nominee for the U.S. presidency, there was the Rev. Channing E. Phillips. The son of a Brooklyn pastor, Phillips, a District of Columbia-based civil-rights leader and social activist, was the first African American whose name was placed in nomination for the U.S. presidency by a major political party, the Democrats. His name was put forward at their tumultuous 1968 convention in Chicago…

Phillips was pastor at Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Temple – like Obama's long-time Chicago church, from which Obama estranged himself this year, a congregation of the United Church of Christ. Phillips was later a minister at Manhattan's Riverside Church…

The Candidate Presidents United States of America number one

The Candidate Presidents United States of America number one

Source: History is very important

Author: Ivan Armiyanto Blogs

Date: 31 August, 2008

Addressing over 8000 United Church of Christ members in June 2007, Obama challenged "so-called leaders of the Christian Right" for being "all too eager to exploit what divides us." A method that political scientists use for gauging ...

Although Obama is Christian, July 2008 polls have shown that some Americans believe incorrectly that he is Muslim or was raised Muslim (12% and 26%, respectively, in Pew and Newsweek polls). When CNN's Larry King cited the latter poll, Obama responded, "...I wasn't raised in a Muslim home," and said that advancement of the misconception insulted Muslim Americans…

Politics trump morals for Obama, Biden

Politics trump morals for Obama, Biden

Source: Chicago Sun-Times - United States

Author: CARL A. ANDERSON

Date: 30 August, 2008

Obama's troubles with Catholics and evangelicals can be traced to his many years of attendance at the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ, a church that professes a belief in "liberation theology." According to "talking points" listed on Trinity Church's Web site, "The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systematized liberation theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone's book, Black Power and Black Theology."

SUNDAYS TWO-CENTS WORTH - #2

SUNDAYS TWO-CENTS WORTH - #2

Source: A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS

Author: Father Gregori

Date: 30 August, 2008

The Straight Way of Grace Ministry I called The United Church of Christ in Chicago , Illinois , where Senator Obama is a member. I doubted that he was indeed a Christian for if he were Muslim and left the religion of Islam, according to ...

The Faith of Barack Obama: A Review of Stephen Mansfield’s New Book

The Faith of Barack Obama: A Review of Stephen Mansfield’s New Book

Source: Nick’s Bytes

Author: Sometimes Saintly Nick (Nicholas Temple)

Date: 29 August, 2008

Have you ever attended a worship service at Trinity United Church of Christ? I have: one, many years ago. In The Faith of Barack Obama, Mansfield takes you to a Trinity service. More importantly, he introduces you to members of the ...

[How] Would Jesus Vote?

[How] Would Jesus Vote?

Source: Staunton Mennonite Weblog

Author: Kevin Gasser

Date: 29 August, 2008

I hope that you can sense my sarcasm coming out. Sure, I think a little mudslinging can be entertaining, but it is not very Christian. I find it interesting Obama, a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, and McCain, a Southern Baptist, who both made very clear confessions of faith in Jesus Christ recently in a forum held at Saddleback Church, would stoop to mudslinging.

Before convention, Obama makes Midwest victory lap

Before convention, Obama makes Midwest victory lap

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis, MN, USA

Author: KEVIN DUCHSCHERE, Star Tribune

Date: 24 August, 2008

He has been a member of the United Church of Christ for several decades. We worship Jesus Christ as the … read more Redeemer. Any person may attend. ...

The Spirituality of Barak Obama and Rick Warren

The Spirituality of Barak Obama and Rick Warren
Source: nogoofyzone weblog

Author: nogoofyzone

Date: 23 August, 2008

In an article in United Church News, Obama stated that the teachings of the UCC (United Church of Christ), of which he is a member (Trinity United Church of Christ), are “foundation stones for his political work.” Just what are those “teachings” comprised of? On Trinity’s website, on the Yoga page, the following statement is highlighted:

Within each [of]us is the seed of Divinity. Each Soul is divine. I bow to the divinity in us all!

That is the spirituality of Thomas Merton!

Clergy to Obama: "Don't Move to the Center"

Clergy to Obama: "Don't Move to the Center"
Source: Burning Cane

Author: John Delloro

Date: 21 August, 2008

In an open-letter to Senator Obama, over 150 American clergy appealed to the Democratic candidate for President to retain the ethical and spiritual vision that won him the nomination in the first place …

… Imam Zaid Shakir, Zeytuna Institute, California Rev. Graylan S. Hagler, National President, Ministers for Racial, Social and Economic Justice of The United Church of Christ Signatories: Rev. Brian Adams Mt. Rainier Christian Church ...

The Faith of Barack Obama

The Faith of Barack Obama

Source:ReformationUCC.org

Author: Admin

Date: 19 August, 2008

Stephen Mansfield’s new book, The Faith of Barack Obama, commends itself by it’s Christian demeanor. Mansfield’s work is not to be confused with books such as Jerome Corsi’s The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality or David Freddoso’s The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate. This work cannot in any way be considered a “hit piece” for the “Right” by any standard, except the that of the most extreme Left where any criticism of Mr. Obama is taken as defaming a Messianic figure. Though Mr. Mansfield would deny it, at times he does indeed seem to “gush” over Mr. Obama and even Trinity United Church of Christ. This is testimony to Mansfield’s intense desire to be evenhanded, despite Mansfield’s own professed conservative and pro-life convictions which would prevent him from voting for Obama. This work, then, is a serious attempt to dispassionately portray the faith of Presidential Candidate Obama in it’s most positive possible light. For that, Mansfield has taken and will take profound criticism from both the Left and the Right.

Barack Obama, John McCain discuss faith, issues at Saddleback ...

Barack Obama, John McCain discuss faith, issues at Saddleback ...

Source: Los Angeles Times - CA, USA

Author: Maeve Reston and Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

Date: 17 August, 2008

But Obama, a Christian who until recently attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, was more revealing about his faith.

Explaining what it meant to him to be a Christian, the Democrat talked of "walking humbly with our God." "I know that I don't walk alone, and I know that if I can get myself out of the way that I can maybe carry out in some small way what he intends," he said.

Poll on race stresses need for ‘sacred conversations’

Poll on race stresses need for ‘sacred conversations’

Source: Dallas Baptist Standard - Dallas, TX, USA

Author:

Date: 14 August, 2008

A recent New York Times/CBS News poll revealing deep national divisions along racial lines is an urgent reminder of the need for “sacred conversations on race,” the head of the National Council of Churches said …

The call for sermons on race was issued earlier this year by John H. Thomas, general minister and president of the United Church of Christ, and promptly endorsed by Kinnamon and other church leaders. Thomas made the call as church leaders gathered on the steps of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ and defended Jeremiah Wright, then the target of a storm of criticism for remarks deemed unpatriotic and radical by critics.

FACTBOX-The faith factors for Obama and McCain

FACTBOX-The faith factors for Obama and McCain

Source: Reuters AlertNet - London, England, UK

Author:

Date: 14 August. 2008

An adult convert to the United Church of Christ, a mainline Protestant denomination with about 1.2 million members nationwide. Obama was drawn to the church ...

The Politics and Religion of Fear

The Politics and Religion of Fear

Source: Healthy Liberal Christianity at Park Church, Elmira, NY

Author: Wayne E. Gustafson, D.Min.

Date: 7 August, 2008

My concern today is the totally inappropriate (dare I say, evil) use of Christian scriptures and beliefs to generate broad-based fear throughout the electorate ...

Some, if not all, of these statements find their way into the internet distribution system. One widely distributed post has a description of the antichrist that makes this ominous character sound just like Obama, including that he will be a Muslim. Of course, many people don’t seem to notice that the Islamic religion didn’t even come to being until several centuries after the biblical prophecies were written, or the fact that Obama belongs to the United Church of Christ and is not a Muslim at all...

Jeannie Babb Taylor: The M-Word: Modern racists use religious attack to smear blacks

Jeannie Babb Taylor: The M-Word: Modern racists use religious attack to smear blacks

Source: Catoosa County News (Georgia)

Author: Jeannie Babb Taylor

Date: 5 August, 2008

Apparently the n-word, which is too vulgar to voice in polite company, has been replaced with the M-word: Muslim ...

Obama is no Muslim, closet or otherwise. In fact, he is more open than most politicians about his faith, speaking often of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. He walked the aisle at Trinity United Church of Christ sixteen years ago. He knelt at the altar on a Sunday morning. He stood and professed Jesus Christ as his lord and savior.

Why Obama’s Faith Matters

Why Obama’s Faith Matters

Source: From Where I Sit

Author: Michael S. Hyatt

Date: 5 August, 2008

Today is the official pub date for The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield. I am very excited about its publication. Of all the books about Obama that have been or will be published, this is the only one I know of that deals exclusively with his faith…

Mansfield discusses Obama’s membership at the controversial Trinity United Church of Christ under the pulpit of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. He even reports first-hand from the church, after sitting through a Sunday morning service and then ...

RIP Solzhenitsyn

RIP Solzhenitsyn

Source: Earnest Expostulations - http://earnestexpostulations.blogspot.com/

Author: EE

Date: 4 August, 2008

In the Wisconsin State Journal, Bill Wineke, a columnist and ordained clergyman of the United Church of Christ (UCC) wrote: "You see, you and I may look at the short clips of Wright sermons played almost endlessly on cable television ...

Makhru Bradley Is Clairvoyant

Makhru Bradley Is Clairvoyant

Source: The Assault on Black Folk’s Sanity

Author: Michael Fisher

Date: 2 August, 2008

They know this is cannon-fodder for the Neo-Con element of the White Supremacy Dynamic, who are already linking Obama’s statement to Rev. Wright's 2007 speech before N'COBRA, “A Call for Justice and Repair;” to Trinity Chuch member Dr. Iva Carruthers’ “The Church and Reparations―An African American Perspective,” which was distributed by her denomination at the 2001 U.N. World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, and to a 2001 resolution presented by Trinity UCC and University Church to the Illinois Conference of the United Church of Christ:

This resolution calls upon the Illinois Conference of the United Church of Christ, its Associations, its local churches, and other related agencies, to be educated about the historical evils of the slave trade and its legacy which is a pernicious and self perpetuating distrust and fear that continues to feed the sin of racism and its fruits of inequality and injustice. It further calls upon the Conference to take actions in support of reparations.

Sunday in the pew at Trinity United Church of Christ

Sunday in the pew at Trinity United Church of Christ

Source: Politics in Color

Author: Wayne Dawkins

Date: 1 August, 2008

On my last day in Chicago as a UNITY Journalists of Color delegate, I had a choice: Go see U.S. Sen. Barack Obama address the closing ceremony of the conference or accept an invitation to visit his former church, Trinity United Church of Christ. Yes, the Trinity UCC that made headlines last spring because of past comments made by its retired pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

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Swiftboating Obama: a big deal or a big yawn?

Swiftboating Obama: a big deal or a big yawn?

Source: Invis

Author: Luiza Ch. Savage

Date: 1 August, 2008

Obama’s extensive connections with Islam and radical politics, from his father’s and stepfather’s Islamic backgrounds, to his Communist and socialist mentors in Hawaii and Chicago, to his long-term and close associations with former Weather Underground heroes William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn—associations much closer than heretofore revealed by the press Barack and wife Michelle’s twenty-year-long religious affiliation with the black-liberation theology of former Trinity United Church of Christ Reverend Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons have always been steeped in a rage first expressed by Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and Malcolm X, a rage that Corsi shows has deep meaning for Obama.