Manya Brachear of the Chicago Tribune has a blog hosted by the paper called The Seeker. In it yesterday, she covered some very interesting interactions between the press and  Barack Obama's spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., whose Trinity United Church of Christ and follows a particularly Afro-centric view of Christianity, emphasizing a Black Work Ethic, commitment to a Black Value System, and an allegiance to all Black Leadership that follows the Black Value System. A brief review of its philosophy shows that this is not your everyday Christian parish and perhaps accounts for his campaign's dropping of the name "Trinity" when discussing his church membership,as Ed Lasky wrote yesterday. The Obama campaign disinvited his spiritual mentor from delivering the benediction when Obama declared his candidacy in February. Since then, Rev. Wright has minimized his availability to the press, refusing requests for interviews regarding Obama, and demanding reporters sign...(Read Full Post)