Sentences with phrase «first black pastors»

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Hispanic pastors and Black pastors said first democrat then christian, I hope thisis not the case.

On the first Sunday of the new urban campus, the white male pastor who had zero urban ministry experience, brashly declared to the mostly black audience, «This ain't your grandmomma's church.»

Considering that almost 70 % of black children born in this country are born out of wedlock, maybe these black pastors should worry about straight couples first.

Not too many years later, when I was pastor of a black parish in Brooklyn, I came to know Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and we formed a fast friendship, first in shared activism against the Vietnam War and later in countless hours of intense theological and philosophical conversation» usually in his smoke - filled office (he with his cigar and I with my pipe) high in the tower of Jewish Theological Seminary up on Morningside Heights.

America is waking up, first Chick - Fil - A and now black Pastors.

It has been my ongoing involvement — as a pastor serving first a black congregation, then a Hispanic one, and now a largely West Indian and Haitian congregation — with the lives of inner - city families that has forced me to change the direction of my efforts as a public official.

«Black folks have very short memories,» said Rev. Tim McDonald, senior pastor of First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta.

Alinsky was a regular lecturer there, along with other community theorists and practitioners: Richard Hauser, Milton Kotler (usually accompanied by Pastor Leopold Bemhard, then at First Lutheran in Columbus, Ohio), SDS neighborhood organizers, SCLC clergy from many cities, SNCC organizers, Maulana Ron Karenga of black nationalist work in California, Ivan Illich of Puerto Rican New York and Cuernavaca, Mexico.

CNN: Southern Baptists elect first black president More than 160 years after its founding as a pro-slavery church, the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday elected a black pastor for the first time to lead the denomination.

Mr. Green, president of a group of pastors named Mobilizing Preachers and Community, said he rejected Mr. Cuomo's first request to introduce him at a black church a week ago in part because he is unhappy with the governor's record on minority contracting.