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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.”

The Daily News has the story, though it’s unclear whether the supporter organized yesterday’s Wright appearance to hurt Obama: Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright sat next to, and chatted with, Barbara Reynolds. A former editorial board member at USA Today, she runs…

Watch Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s raucous National Press Club Q&A with reporters from this morning here:This speech will make more news than Wright’s other public appearances over the last few days. Wright stood by his 9/11 remarks. He stood by Louis Farrakhan. He indignantly pushed back against each hostile question from the media, slapping hands behind…

This one’s for a special congressional election in Mississippi:Politico has the story.

Last week, John McCain was emailing the North Carolina GOP, insisting that it not air a television ad exploiting Barack Obama’s relationship with the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Now McCain says Wright is fair game, The New York Times reports: Up to now, Mr. McCain had largely avoided talking about the incendiary views of Mr.…

It’s not what he said, it’s that he said anything at all.There was nothing in Jeremiah Wright’s speech at the Detroit NAACP’s Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner last night that was a tenth as controversial as in the videotaped sermons of him that started circulating a couple months ago. But that doesn’t mean his appearance…

The Clinton campaign just sent God-o-Meter this picture of Chelsea Clinton worshipping at the Central United Methodist Church in Ashville, North Carolina. Not news. But the story that the picture’s attached to in the Ashville Citizen-Times might contain some. Check out these seemingly innocuous paragraphs from the piece: At the church in the morning, about…

Raymond Flynn was U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican under President Bill Clinton and, before that, Mayor of Boston. In recent years, the lifelong Democrat has been an advocate for the poor and for social conservative causes, which has sometimes put him at odds with his own party. He backed Mitt Romney for governor of Massachusetts…
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