Search results
Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Jr. (born September 22, 1941) is a pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation he led for 36 years, during which its membership grew to over 8,000 parishioners.
The Jeremiah Wright controversy gained national attention in the United States, in March 2008 after ABC News investigated the sermons of Jeremiah Wright who was, at that time, the pastor of then U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is the former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, which he began to lead in 1971. He is credited with transforming the church of 250 members into the largest in the United Church of Christ denomination.
Sep 26, 2015 · What, exactly, was the Reverend Jeremiah Wright—former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, erstwhile minister to Barack Obama, and the man who infamously thundered,...
Pastor Jeremiah Wright recalls growing up with parents who were both ministers, attending college during the Civil Right Movement, joining the military, and ...
May 24, 2016 · When ABC News aired a story about incendiary remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s longtime pastor, during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, the media freaked out.
Mar 24, 2008 · The weekend after Sen. Barack Obama's address on race in America and after nearly two weeks featuring pummeling coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's fiery sermons, attention remains focused...
Apr 25, 2008 · Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Jeremiah Wright was raised in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood, his father was a prominent Baptist minister and his mother a respected educator. In...
Mar 18, 2008 · Presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) defended his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, on Tuesday, even as he repudiated some of the pastor's inflammatory sermons. But...
Jan 11, 2002 · His parents, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Sr., and Dr. Mary Henderson Wright, were his earliest influences instilling in him the possibility of balancing the intellectual with the spiritual. Armed with this philosophical upbringing, Wright has pastored Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ since 1972, seeing its membership grow from eighty ...
