New Pastor to Head Obama's Chicago ChurchWednesday, Apr. 30, 2008
By AP/SOPHIA TAREEN
(CHICAGO) — When the Rev. Otis Moss III takes to the pulpit before a congregation that includes Barack Obama, he's as likely to preach about Tupac Shakur or one of his favorite authors as he is the Apostle Paul.
The 37-year-old "hip-hop pastor," as he's called by congregants, will become the head of Trinity United Church of Christ in June, taking over at a time of turmoil for the 8,000-member church, the nation's largest United Church of Christ congregation.
Moss' ascent follows the retirement of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom Obama angrily denounced Tuesday for his "divisive and destructive" remarks.
It's a shift from more than three decades under Wright, a preacher born of the civil-rights era whose fiery comments about Sept. 11, HIV/AIDS and other issues have placed the church under a media microscope.
"Pastor Moss has inherited the repercussions of an attack he had nothing to do with," said Brenda Salter McNeil, president of an Oak Park, Ill.-based company that works on diversity issues in Christian organizations. "He has to pastor a people through it."
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