Posted on 09/20/2010 7:27:06 PM PDT by thecodont
Although Allen Temple Baptist Church in East Oakland is no stranger to large crowds and public attention, the promise of a guest sermon Sunday morning by the popular and controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright ensured that there wouldn't be an empty seat in the house.
Wright, the former senior pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church and a friend of Allen Temple's pastor emeritus J. Alfred Smith, Sr., has preached to the Allen Temple congregation several times since the 1980s. But this Sunday's sermon was his first at Allen Temple since the 2008 presidential campaign, during which a frenzy of negative media attention surrounded Barack Obama's former pastor, assailing him for what critics regarded as inflammatory rhetoric on race and US policy.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/inoakland/detail?entry_id=72711#ixzz107ttSFTq
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http://oaklandnorth.net/2010/09/20/allen-temple-4-members-still-in-zimbabwe-hears-sermon-from-controversial-jeremiah-wright/
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