Friday, December 09, 2005

Oprah's Pastor on the Oprification of America

I listened last night to a recent installment of Al Mohler's radio program titled, "The Church of Oprah Winfrey—A New American Religion?" I listened with interest to his analysis what another author calls the gospel according to Oprah. What really perked my ears was his quotation from Winfrey's pastor, Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. (Wright says Winfrey has not attended in some time, but she retains her membership there.)

Mohler quotes from a Christianity Today article that quotes a column written by Wright in another publication. Wright says, "A lot of us do not even like the word faith anymore," he wrote. "We prefer the more chic-sounding word, spirituality! We are caught up in an Oprah-generated mentality and a 12-step vocabulary that prevents us from using the very words and the very bridge that 'brought us over!' "

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't knock Oprah - she recently had a show in which she stated that she surrendered her life to Jesus many years ago. Can't judge her...

Ben said...

Well, I'm not sure how quoting her pastor is knocking her, but regardless, I completely reject the notion that some sort of spiritual testimony exempts someone's ideas from all future evaluation and critique.