{"id":342,"date":"2008-03-10T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2008-03-09T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T04:20:11","slug":"dr-jeremiah-a-wright-jr-and-trinity-united-church-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. and Trinity United Church of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/03\/10\/080310fa_fact_collins?printable=true\">Michelle Obama was interviewed by Lauren Collins<\/a> for the Style Issue of <em>New Yorker <\/em>magazine last week.\u00a0 Ms. Obama had a disarming answer to the question of how the controversial views of the Obamas&#8217; pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ, Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. reflect on Mr. Obama:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou know, your pastor is like your grandfather, right?\u201d she said. \u201cThere are plenty of things he says that I don\u2019t agree with, that Barack doesn\u2019t agree with.\u201d When it comes to absolute doctrinal adherence, she said, \u201cI don\u2019t know that there would be a church in this country that I would be involved in. So, you know, you make choices, and you sort of\u2014you can\u2019t disown yourself from your family because they\u2019ve got things wrong. You try to be a part of expanding the conversation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t this is an answer doctrinaire religious folk will like.\u00a0 But it has the virtue of not sounding like boilerplate political hedging; instead, it demonstrates a reflective faith and an clear-eyed candor that our national conversation about faith is generally missing. <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama was interviewed by Lauren Collins for the Style Issue of New Yorker magazine last week.\u00a0 Ms. Obama had a disarming answer to the question of how the controversial views of the Obamas&#8217; pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ, Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. reflect on Mr. Obama: \u201cYou know, your pastor is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,8,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-morality","category-obama","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-5w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}