Calm visit in Virginia for Obama's ex-pastor

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Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

NORFOLK -- Barack Obama's longtime former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., avoided controversy yesterday as he delivered the sermon to a Baptist church where his late uncle was minister.

The homily was Wright's first public appearance since the controversy over his seemingly anti-American sermons delivered to the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Obama is a member, has dogged the Democrat's presidential campaign.

Rather than deliver an angry message, Wright had the congregation at the Bank Street Memorial Baptist Church laughing uproariously as he spoke, often in street slang, of the differences between men and women.

He took as a sermon topic the New Testament story in which Jesus ran into a squall while on a boat in the Sea of Galilee. The waters were so rough that his disciples became afraid and woke Jesus up. Jesus calmed the waters.



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1. i was there for it

my dad went to school with wright and this was his first chance to see him in decades...great sermon, and the message was on point...i was in the overflow room, and there were at least 5 reporters there (who knows how many more in the main worship hall)