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Jeremiah Wright

Jeremiah Wright

Isaiah 10 1 Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, 2 to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. 3 What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? 4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

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Jeremiah Alvesta Wright, Jr. (born September 22, 1941) is Pastor Emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), a megachurch in Chicago exceeding 6,000 members.[1] In early 2008, Wright retired after 36 years as the Senior Pastor of his congregation and no longer has daily responsibilities at the church. [2] [3]

Following retirement, Wright's beliefs and preaching were scrutinized when segments from his sermons were publicized in connection with the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, including his contention that the Attacks of September 11, 2001 were proof that "America's chickens are coming home to roost" and "...not God Bless America. God damn America." [4] Obama reacted to the Wright controversy in a speech entitled "A More Perfect Union." [5]

Wright subsequently defended himself in a speech before the NAACP on April 27, 2008, in which he indicated that he was not "divisive" but "descriptive," and that the black church experience, like black culture, was "different" but not "deficient". [6]

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Jeremiah Wright Wikipedia Article

Jeremiah Wright At Answers.com

Jeremiah Wright at Free Republic

Wright's blog at RH Reality Check

Illinois legislature resolution congratulating Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. on his retirement

Von Hoene Jr., William A. " Rev. Wright in a different light". Chicago Tribune, 26 March 2008.

Bill Moyers Journal - "Reverend Jeremiah Wright" PBS, April 25, 2008, interview

Black Liberation Theology and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, interview with Dr. Dwight Hopkins, professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, BeliefNet, May 2008

Jeremiah Wright's Service to 3 Presidents photographs and newspaper articles

Wright sermons at the official channel of Trinity United Church of Christ on YouTube

Audio of complete sermon by Wright from which the soundbite on 9/11 was excerpted.

Audio of complete sermon by Wright from which soundbite "God damn America" was excerpted.

The Audacity to Hope sermon from which the title of Barack Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, is derived.

Transcript Of A Jeremiah Wright Sermon given on January 27, 2008 Archived.

Full video of Wright's 28 April 2008 speech on the Black church at the National Press club. Requires RealPlayer or Real Alternative

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The Audacity to Hope

Controversial Sermons

Martin E. Marty

SWB Translation #1
Prophet and Pastor
To his former professor, congregant, and friend, Jeremiah Wright has been both

By MARTIN E. MARTY

Through the decades, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. has called me teacher, reminding me of the years when he earned a master's degree in theology and ministry at the University of Chicago — and friend. My wife and I and our guests have worshiped at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where he recently completed a 36-year ministry. Read Article by Martin Marty

Did Martin Luther King Jr. say...?

Through nonviolent suffering, King believed that "blacks would not only liberate themselves from the necessity of bitterness and the feeling of inferiority toward whites, but would also prick the conscience of whites and liberate them from a feeling of superiority."[1]

SWB Translation #2 (speaking to a different crowd)
How Wrong Was Rev. Wright? by Troy Jackson

On a Sunday when Americans flooded houses of worship seeking words of comfort, hope, and healing, Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago dared to forgo the singing of "God Bless America." Instead, Senator Barack Obama's pastor claimed the prophetic biblical message of the hour ought to call us to proclaim, "God Damn America." Read Troy Jackson article on Jim Wallis Blog

SWB Translation #3 (government)

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1. Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Pastor Emeritus, Trinity United Church of Christ
2. Pastor Trinity United Church of Christ
3. Ramirez, Margaret (2008-02-11). "Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., preaches last sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ". Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-wright_11feb11,1,4431179.story< Retrieved 2008-03-22
4. Banks, Adelle (2008-03-22). "Obama Finds Pulpit in Center of Racial Divide". Washington Post Retrieved 2008-03-22

5. Barack Obama (2008-03-18). "Text of Obama's speech: A More Perfect Union". Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/03/18/text-of-obamas-speech-a-more-perfect-union/?mod=googlenews_wsj Retrieved 2008-03-18.
6. "Obama's ex-pastor gives fiery speech to NAACP". CNN. Archived from the original on May 1, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080501195749/http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/27/obama.wright.ap/index.html. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
7. James H. Cone, "Black Theology in American Religion," Theology Today 43 (April 1986):13.

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