Examining the full content of Wright’s sermons and delivery style yields a far more complex message, though it’s one that some will still find objectionable. For more than 30 years every Sunday, Wright walked churchgoers along a winding road from rage to reconciliation, employing a style that validated both. “He’s voicing a reality that those people experience six days a week,” said Rev. Dwight Hopkins, a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Trinity member. “In that sense, he’s saying they’re not insane. That helps them to function the other six days of the week.”
Wright’s preaching, which mixes theology with the often-troubled history of race relations in America, is in the “prophetic” tradition, one of many that have evolved in black pulpits.
But while the rhetoric may come across as harsh, experts say its goal is to convince bitter skeptics that reconciliation is indeed possible.
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RELATED: To help understand Rev. Wright and his church, please go here: Trinity United Church of Christ Chicago YouTube Channel. Although his most extreme comments are “Inflammatory,” I feel they have been mis-interpreted. TV and Radio “Media Prostitutes,” plucked a few and ran “gung-ho” with them, particularly the “Fix News Channel” a.k.a Fox News Channel — a hate mongering denof snakes and hookers.
Reverend Wright does not preach hate or call upon his parishioners to engage in racist or hateful acts. Overwhelmingly, he delivers a message of empowerment…SAMPLE BELOW
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