Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Bill Moyers Journal

Did any of you catch the interview that Bill Moyers had with Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Friday? I didn't see it when it aired, but I saw it online and it was very, very good. For an hour, without commercial interruption, Rev. Wright shared very personally and directly about his life, ministry, Trinity Church and his comments that have become so controversial lately. Bill Moyer probably spoke for about 5 cumulatively on the broadcast.

I have not waded into this controversy on this blog, but I have shared others places. But today I am here to say that if you have been effected by this controversy or have taken a stand on it, you really must watch this interview. He is intelligent and articulate. He is definitely not the whacko that some in the media have tried to make him out to be. I am convinced that this is a man of God!

Watch the interview here (in two parts)

Comments

[Dick Larsen]

I haven't been able to watch this yet but I heard most of his address to the National Press Club today. It was very good. Interestingly in the question/answer part he was very clear about the press using phrases out of context then in listening to the news reports over the rest of the day the press still didn't even quite have his answers to the press quite right.

[melvin bray]

wright has been formative in my growth beyond racial bitterness. i will forever be grateful to him, regardless of how his words and ministry are misconstrued.

however for those who continue to be disturbed by wright's affiliation with farrakhan, we have to differentiate between the world they speak for/against and the world we labor to create. we speak of a resurrection that was necessitated by a very real death at the hands of a very ugly mob. wright and farrakhan are two old rebels who have seen too many would-be revolutionaries and other innocents die in their day. such could embitter even the most optimistic among us. how can we judge them? our challenge is--in one sense--to prove them wrong.