The Catholic Roots of Obama's Activism

THE NEW YORK TIMES

CHICAGO — In a meeting room under Holy Name Cathedral, a rapt group of black Roman Catholics listened as Barack Obama, a 25-year-old community organizer, trained them to lobby their fellow delegates to a national congress in Washington on issues like empowering lay leaders and attracting more believers.

“He so quickly got us,” said Andrew Lyke, a participant in the meeting who is now the director of the Chicago Archdiocese’s Office for Black Catholics. The group succeeded in inserting its priorities into the congress’s plan for churches, Mr. Lyke said, and “Barack Obama was key in helping us do that.”

By the time of that session in the spring of 1987, Mr. Obama — himself not Catholic — was already well known in Chicago’s black Catholic circles.

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Codex Sinaiticus: Weapon of the Higher Critics

Below is a link to a BBC documentary called "The Beauty of Books" that covers the history and influence of the Codex Sinaiticus, loosely referred to as the world's oldest Bible, but more specifically containing what is said to be the oldest complete copy of the New Testament.  This documentary reveals how the manuscript is used by the higher critics as a weapon against the Bible's inspiration and inerrancy.  Notice at the ending how Dr. Scot McKendrick from the British Library says that Sinaiticus is proof that the Bible was "evolving" in the fourth century, and so that should be "a caution to people about how they interpret and how they use this text." 

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