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To: kellynla
Looking for references for Father Michael Pfleger, I found this article on the sermons at Trinity on Good Friday. It appears Pfleger was one of seven guest preachers that day. I hadn't seen an article on the Good Friday sermons. A Visit to Obama's Chicago Church

The Trinity United Church of Christ vibrated with cheers throughout the four-hour Good Friday service. When the last of seven guest preachers, Rev. Rudolph McKissick, Jr. unleashed his anger against the recent media storm that catapulted Trinity to global notoriety, the crowd rose to their feet. McKissick thundered: "Fox News, CNN, ABC ... they're so stupid that they don't even know the word damn is not a profanity but a Hebraic proclivity, meaning God's curse will fall on all those who defy his love. They know not with whom they are messing. Jeremiah Wright might have retired in body, but just like Jesus, he's coming back more powerful than ever! D*mn you! D*mn anyone who messes with the anointed." At that, a TUCC member leaned over and said to TIME with a sigh, "Well, I guess that one's on the record."....

....[snip]...Trinity's own Roman-like architecture is unfamiliar for a church, which might explain why some outsiders found it cultish and strange. The congregation meets in a theater-in-the round, designed after secular buildings like the Parthenon and the U.S. Congress. Stained-glass windows flanking the entrance feature images of African American leaders, not saints: W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. There is also a glass sculpture of a man resembling Obama. Above it, light streams through block-lettered words: "VOTE. We need YOU." For now at least, Trinity may offer the only refuge for South Siders longing to experience the blessing of democracy.
19 posted on 03/25/2008 6:47:06 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: Girlene

Where’s the Obamamessiah blogger when you need him... he’s way behind:

http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/


24 posted on 03/25/2008 2:12:37 PM PDT by AliVeritas
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