Trinity United Church of Christ

Inauguration 2013: Rev. Jeremiah Wright calls on Obama to promote peace

2013-01-21 07:56:00

WASHINGTON — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the president’s former pastor whose sermons touched off a firestorm in the 2008 political campaign, urged Monday that President Obama heed the words of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and transform...

Doyle McManus: Shifting sands of religion and politics

2011-06-05 00:00:00

Of the 44 U.S. presidents, all but a handful have been affiliated with a relatively narrow list of traditional Protestant denominations. Eleven were Episcopalians (12 if you count Thomas Jefferson, whose adult beliefs are a subject of debate), eight were...

Three years after Obama's race speech, he can joke about another man's skin color

2011-03-18 04:35:37

Sarah Palin and Common have at least two things in common

2011-05-10 21:37:10

Toledo rallies for hometown hero Crystal Bowersox

2010-05-08 21:33:41

'The Speech' edited by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

2009-08-09 00:00:00

The Speech Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Bloomsbury: 272 pp., $18 In March 2008, Barack Obama gave himself an extended audition for president with "A More Perfect Union," his now-famous speech on race...

Mainstream media not jumping on the political rumor bandwagon

2008-06-13 00:00:00

Call me quaint and old-fashioned, but I give most of the mainstream media a hearty pat on the back for refusing to spread the inflammatory and thoroughly unsubstantiated rumor that Michelle Obama once railed against "whitey" from a pulpit. Fervent e-...

Obama pastor's words ring familiar in Chicago

2008-03-20 00:00:00

Carolyn Devine wiped the sweat out of her eyes and glanced up at her gym's TV sets, where a national debate over race was roiling. Newscasters heatedly debated Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's recent speech about his longtime pastor's incendiary comments....

Text of Sen. Barack Obama's 'A more perfect union' speech

2008-03-18 15:33:58

These are the prepared remarks that the Illinois senator delivered today at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the...

Obama stands his unique ground on race

2008-03-19 00:00:00

From the earliest days of his career, Barack Obama has sought to assure black voters that a political leader of mixed race, coming from the outpost of Hawaii, could understand the resentments of an African American community shaped by slavery and...

Black clergy on same-sex marriage

2008-05-21 00:00:00

As The Times' story "Coming to grips with same-sex marriage ruling" shows, with the mainstream media, there seems to be no real interest in thinking outside the box that has been drawn for them by certain gay groups. That is why we see the same faces...

Willie Horton or Lincoln-Douglas?

2008-06-13 00:00:00

Today's question: Will the mood of the contest be civil but boring, nasty but entertaining, or something else? Will there be any action from a third party? Click here for previous installments from this week's Dust-Up. Godspeed Obama's "fight the smears"...

Pastor Otis Moss III at Trinity United Church of Christ on April 4, 2012.

2012-05-17 15:20:00

Jamie McCauley lights votive candles near the conclusion of Tuesday night's Lights for Life candlelight vigil at Trinity United Church of Christ in Waynesboro, Pa.

2012-05-01 00:00:00

Brenette Garland, 6, prays during a service lead by Rev. Otis Moss III, senior pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ on Jan. 15.

2012-01-15 00:00:00