Obama's church
Trinity United Church of Christ is big on social and political activism, plus big on controversy for its favorite son | Daniel James Devine
CHICAGO— The choir won't stand still at Trinity United Church of Christ, which Barack Obama has attended for 20 years. In dashikis and outfits of variegated patterns and colors—black stripes, radiant yellows and purples, networks of green and pink—150 singers are clapping, swaying in unison, and singing, "The Lord is blessing me, right now, oh, right now."
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Hurry up and wait
Obama says his joining a church "came about as a choice, and not an epiphany." Choices do not bother secular Americans; epiphanies do. Joining a church to fight loneliness makes it as unobjectionable as joining a social club, but his affiliation serves as an antidote to evidence-less charges that Obama is secretly a Muslim. He says, "I've been to the same church, the same Christian church, for almost 20 years"—and he's listened to the same far-left pastor.
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