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Pastors, scholars at Dallas conference voice support for Jeremiah Wright
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| Last Edited | DFWDem Mar 28, 2008 02:49pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Dallas Morning News |
| News Date | Friday, March 28, 2008 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By JEFFREY WEISS / The Dallas Morning News
More than two dozen well-known black preachers and scholars, in Dallas for a long-planned conference, offered unequivocal support Friday for one of their number who was not there.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, now world-famous as the former pastor and spiritual mentor of presidential candidate Barack Obama, was to be the guest of honor at the Black Church Summit held by Brite Divinity School. Amid the controversy about some of his sermons, Dr. Wright decided not to attend, but the summit started as scheduled.
Most of the event was not open to the media, but several of the scholars and preachers spoke at a news conference. They said that Mr. Wright's fit into a longstanding black tradition of prophetic preaching — one that the Rev Martin Luther King also emerged from.
"We have learned in recent days that you cannot reduce any black church to a monolith, much less a sound bite," said the Rev. Fredrick Haynes, senior pastor at Friendship-West Baptist Church, which hosted the summit.
He said that if Dr. King were still alive, that his church would be like Trinity United Church of Christ, the Chicago church that Mr. Wright led until his recent retirement, and that Dr. King's sermons would be like Mr. Wright's sermons.
Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas, director of the Black Church Studies program at Brite Divinity School, said that the controversy about Mr. Wright is an indication of how little many whites know about what happens routinely at many black churches.
"It's news to you," she said. |
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