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Obama Pastor Problem? Westboro April Fools, Jesus Coming Back Poll

Written By Unknown on Monday, April 1, 2013 | 3:32 PM

April 1, 2013
Under attack by some conservatives for speaking out against the "captains of the religious right" in his Easter sermon, the Rev. Luis León, pastor of the church the Obama family attended for the holiday, told The Huffington Post on Monday that he stands by his words.

"It's in there. People will do what they want with it," said Leon, referring to the sermon in which he said it drives him "crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back ... for blacks to be back in the back of the bus ... for women to be back in the kitchen ... for immigrants to be back on their side of the border." Continue reading...
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RICK HAMLIN
Jesus Lives!
When I hear that phase I'm more likely to think of a service that wasn't on Easter, a funeral for a guy who died too young and had insisted that no matter when death came, we were to sing "Jesus lives!" Continue reading...
MORGAN GUYTON
Why Google's 'War On Easter' Is Offensively Christlike
Jesus is not stingy about sharing His resurrection with all of humanity. Why would he be stingy about sharing Easter with Cesar Chavez? Continue reading...
REV. PEG NOWLING WILLIAMS
Dying, but Still Teaching: The Easter Vigil
My mother is in her last days of life. Dialysis has ended. We wait for the inevitable. On this holiest of weekends, we wait. We sit vigil, waiting for her to die, waiting for Jesus to become Christ, waiting for the women to find an empty tomb, waiting to give my mother to her eternal rest. Continue reading...
MARCO CáCERES
Cleansing the Temple: Jesus' Act of Social Protest
Jesus' attack on the money changers and bird sellers was much more than an attack on simple tradesman. It was less about defiling the Temple with needed and commonly accepted money transactions and more about attacking the power structure of Jewish society at the time. Continue reading...
MENACHEM WECKER
Islamic Art Mounts Comeback at European Fine Art Fair
Although Buddhist and Hindu art aficionados can find stunning sculptures and Jewish art lovers can examine medallions with Hebrew inscriptions, Islamic art is much more difficult to find. Continue reading...


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