Oprah + Obama Used Chicago Church For Personal Gain

RFFM.org ^ | May 7, 2008 | Rev. Lainie Dowell

[Daniel T. Zanoza]

REV. LAINIE DOWELL -- ON FAITH

Black Liberation Theology Brought To Media Attention Long Ago, But Ignored

As I recall, it was during the 1990s when I wrote to Oprah Winfrey about the problems in the Black Baptist Church in America and the NAACP and I asked her to investigate. I never received a response from Winfrey's show which is produced in Chicago, Illinois.

I now recall how, in 1985, I was a Preacher at the First Baptist Church of Guilford (FBCG), in Columbia, Maryland. The Pastor at the time was Rev. John L. Wright (no relation to Jeremiah Wright--but both are black Baptist ministers and promote the same Black Liberation Theology) and he is still there today.

At that time, Oprah Winfrey ...

[vpintheak]

Well, harpo has a “new” (in reality very old) religion. And you are as good as you can be according to her.

[EverOnward]

interesting.....

[Southerngl]

Ya think?

[Alia]

I went to the original url for your post, and thank you for this data out of Illinois. "Preachin on someone" happens in many churches, but most don't use national/domestic political "identity" politics to "preach on a person".

My own hunch? I don't think Oprah is stingy. I don't think she likes being used anymore than I ever did like being told I had to think a certain way, believe a certain way in feminism, just because I was female.

I'm glad y'all wrote to Greta Van Sustern in re Black Baptist Churches and the NAACP. Same problem exists in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[ken21]

a lot of churches have contributed to the improved financial well being of their parishioners.

there are books on this subject.

that’s one of the incentives that moves mexican immigrants from catholocism to the

jehovah witnesses or pentacostals or whatever. the majority always move up the social ladder.