Jeremiah Wright and the Black Church

Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright continues to dominate news headlines with several public appearances, including a PBS television interview with Bill Moyers, intended to give the American public a fuller picture of who he really is. Rev. Wright, who recently retired from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, became the center of controversy after clips from some of his most inflammatory sermons surfaced over the airwaves earlier this year.

This week, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. as part of a summit sponsored by the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Rev. Wright charged that the attacks are not about him or Senator Obama, but are being launched against the black church itself "by people who know nothing about the African-American religious tradition."

Bob Abernethy is joined by Dr. Harold Dean Trulear, associate professor of Applied Theology at Howard University School of Divinity, for a studio discussion on how black churches are responding to Wright. For full story see: http://www.pbs.org/religion

Trulear also talks talks with Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly about Jeremiah Wright, black church history and traditions, and the need for reconciliation that "takes disaffection into account."