The Rev. Jeremiah Wright addressed the 142nd annual Virginia State Baptist Convention, a historically black convention with 753 member congregations, on Tuesday, according to the Virginian-Pilot.
He didn’t talk about his former congregant, President Obama, but rather about colonialism and the changing face of global Christianity, the V-P reports.
“Within our lifetimes, Christianity isn’t going to be a predominantly white religion,” he said. “In terms of world religions, Christianity is growing in the continent of Africa, in Southeast Asia.”
Wright also said, according to the V-P, the black faith community is grappling with a harsh criminal justice system, disparity in health care, the need for prison reform and other social justice issues.
“It’s those kinds of challenges the African-American church and its members face daily in a way that mainline Protestants and evangelical white church members don’t,” he said.
The V-P noted that Wright is now teaching at Virginia Union University in Richmond. How I would love to be a fly on the wall.