https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to jeremiah wright en https://religiondispatches.org/2012/10/16/mitts-jesus-baracks-jesus-and-why-christs-color-matters By tracking the way Jesus Christ has been rendered through the American racial imagination—actually lining up all the evidence, from Puritan witch trial transcripts through stained glass windows through contemporary movies—Paul and Ed give us a new place to start a national discussion about who owns the image of God. That discussion has been going on, as The Color of Christ demonstrates, in communities of color since the early nineteenth century, if not before. Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:19:56 EDT Joanna Brooks 4ad0408e-6409-47b3-9fbc-a4267c3fb49b https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/09/ghost-rev-wright The racial code in Romney’s new ad. Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:36:13 EDT Anthea Butler 2d3ceb3a-3afe-46ea-b7c5-4dde15c89d32 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/07/attacking-obama-religion-and-race-worst-romney-strategy-ever Behold the woeful ignorance of GOP strategists. Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:10:24 EDT Joanna Brooks 6ceee04f-64d8-45d2-87fb-bb15f4987802 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/07/25/jerry-boykin-hate-speaker Legitimizing questions about Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood. Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:35:14 EDT Wil Gafney 5f903fed-77d0-4a2d-9c32-3d34f1429d0a https://religiondispatches.org/2012/05/17/romney-not-precisely-familiar-questioning-obamas-faith-stands-it Romney’s Hannity talk. Thu, 17 May 2012 06:08:17 EDT Sarah Posner f35d66ea-43bb-4e2f-8c10-4e91caa3ee5b https://religiondispatches.org/2012/02/21/graham-whistles-dixie-morning-joe Franklin Graham, panderer to the most powerful (and most conservative) members of the GOP, revives Obama as Muslim lie. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:21:28 EST Anthea Butler b35ed2dc-16de-47ca-a466-c65ea8cd6df4 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/28/hannity-incites-threats-dc-church-where-obamas-attended-easter-services Fox News anchor claims Shiloh’s pastor is like Jeremiah Wright. Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:19:25 EDT Sarah Posner ff54fdd9-f999-488a-9c06-50aebf7ef20c https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/07/beck-too-hot-fox-not-hagee Conspiracy theorists join hands as Beck agrees to be CUFI conference keynote speaker. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:48:27 EDT Sarah Posner 36efe829-57c8-486b-9c61-8578c2bfdb79 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/11/19/obamas-supposed-religion-dilemma-and-american-exceptionalism Countering the right’s narratives is not an “uphill battle.” Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:23:14 EST Sarah Posner f2dda38b-0a5d-48b8-b11b-2a4640a2fe0d https://religiondispatches.org/2010/08/25/right-attacks-obamas-religious-advisors Spreading smears about not being “typical American Christians.” Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:04:32 EDT Sarah Posner e94d9045-f113-4fbe-a147-3a854a7b228f https://religiondispatches.org/2009/07/03/black-church-institution-or-abstraction Rev. Wright’s assertions that it’s really the “Black Church” under attack help reduce the complexity of the religious life of black America to a soundbite… Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:45:56 EDT Anthony B. Pinn 3ab0ea60-384e-474d-9eaa-3cfdf0bd7660 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/07/03/black-church-blues-parting-black-church The Rev. Wright controversy begs the question: Has “The Black Church” outgrown its usefulness? Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:28:05 EDT Kathryn Lofton 82f0d0ef-e022-4aa5-bf24-9117a2e1fabe https://religiondispatches.org/2009/07/03/jeremiah-wright-president Maybe the real “straight-talk express” should run for the nation’s highest office himself; the one test for president Wright cannot pass is the one the mainstream media insist on more than any other. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:14:30 EDT Ira Chernus 0f99aa8a-aaa6-493a-8f75-31306fb1c0cd https://religiondispatches.org/2009/07/03/puritan-narcissus-myth-american-exceptionalism An inflated sense of purpose seems to be part of the American genome… Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:46:07 EDT Nick Street bece589b-ed88-4b1b-b109-c05a2da10f93 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/07/03/getting-wright-wrong-preaching-not-policy Anyone who thinks that full agreement with your pastor is necessary has never been to church… Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:15:28 EDT Anthony B. Pinn 0aac07f7-dd9c-450b-9b86-7ae394dcbfaa https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/19/grace-under-pressure-reclaiming-hope-progressive-religion If progressive religious believers are going to provide any kind of witness to our diverse society we must reclaim the idea of “hope” from the realm of politics. Hope, as theology, is not only about finding common purpose, but about liberation. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:46:43 EDT Daniel Schultz f1dd9110-7551-4b33-a829-661a8e7e8593 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/16/op-ed-religion-wedge-rick-warren-debacle With the choice of Rev. Warren to make the inaugural invocation, the president elect has proven himself tone deaf to the nuances of American religious life. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:33:31 EDT Anthea Butler 9fc1c968-8ceb-455d-95a6-0745bd1b73d1 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/15/op-ed-few-things-i-wish-barack-obama-had-said I deeply regret that some people took, or claimed to take, my use of this metaphor as a reference to Sarah Palin. Let me say categorically that I do not see Governor Palin as a pig… Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:26:14 EDT Garret Keizer 0a64af54-bebf-4d05-854d-6392091fea4e https://religiondispatches.org/2009/05/27/damning-america-right-and-left Reverend Wright’s condemnation of the United States made waves, but right-wing preachers have been railing against America’s sins for years. Wed, 27 May 2009 02:03:12 EDT Rosemary R. Ruether f249d2ff-ee7f-44d8-aa78-bfd60c282829 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/05/06/double-helix-do-you-fear-what-i-fear Was Obama’s speech just an exercise in kumbaya idealism? Wed, 06 May 2009 10:21:41 EDT Arri Eisen eebd2798-3867-4326-83a9-5360cb3f39db https://religiondispatches.org/2009/05/04/op-ed-rev-wright-and-church-state-divide Agonized analyses about the proper relation between church and state too often miss the point. Mon, 04 May 2009 01:50:56 EDT Ira Chernus d6350ab7-12cb-4b90-bd58-672a10bd17a2 https://religiondispatches.org/2008/05/01/swiftboating-obama-brown-blob-black-radicalism Obama supporters should “chill out” in the face of this swiftboating via the conflation of Obama and Wright into an undifferentiated brown blob of black radicalism broadcast together in a twenty-four hour news cycle. Thu, 01 May 2008 01:15:55 EDT Jonathan L. Walton 0930bf79-76b0-4456-89f1-653f96cf66c6