A reader passes this along:
An interesting 2004 article from the Pew Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy in which Jeremiah Wright and other black pastors lament that a younger generation of black clergy have started to shun politics as an integral part of their ministries:
From the article:
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. is one pastor who believes in “preaching his people to the polls.”
The head of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago has launched a “4 in ‘04″ campaign, urging each church member to take four people to the polls. Voting, he said, “should be a collective responsibility, and I charge each individual I pastor to take this on.”