They are called black churches because of their perspective, which is often far different than those of
Conservative White churches.
Not exact matches
Here is the Surgeon General of the U.S. by inference laying the blame for the AIDS epidemic at the feet of the U.S. government, the Roman Catholic
Church, the
conservative press («the stridently
conservative Washington Times»), Phyllis Schlafly (whom he describes as «beneath contempt» because she opposed him on his proposed condom solution), and a sinister cabal of
White House
conservatives led by Carl Anderson.
(The Democratic candidates find their way to black
churches, the Republicans to
conservative white ones.)
I grew up in a
conservative southern (Texas)
white Baptist
church.
Conservative pastors who urge their colleagues to avoid politics are hypocrites, says James Cone, a prominent theologian who has spent much of his career writing books condemning
white churches for what he says is their indifference to social justice.
(This is a decidedly more
conservative pairing, but was ideal with a
white blazer for Easter service at our
church last weekend... which was when these pictures were taken.)