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With the avalanche of criticism descending on Jeremiah Wright after his National Press Club appearance yesterday, even from many Obama supporters, the big question today was whether Obama would do what he said he couldn’t in his big Philadelphia speech on race and politics: disown Wright. That’s exactly what he did this afternoon at a…

It’s no surprise that my conservative Beliefnet colleague Rod Dreher is openly pondering whether Barack Obama is in need of a Sister Soulja moment wherein he disowns Jeremiah Wright. What is more remarkable is how different the reaction is from opinion shapers who’ve been more sympathetic to Obama–in some cases, outright supportive of him–since Wright’s…

UCC blogger Chuck Currie writes that the Wright controversy is beside the point: This weekend and today The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, a colleague of mine in the United Church of Christ (thought we do not know each other personally), spoke out for the first time since controversy erupted over some of his sermons. Of…

If you haven’t yet, check out the debate happening between Deal Hudson, the RNC’s fomrer Catholic outreach director, Catholic writer David Gibson, and Beliefnet editor-in-chief Steve Waldman about whether Barack Obama has a so-called Catholic problem–or whether Catholics have a “black problem.”
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