Sentences with phrase «as white churches»

In a much - quoted study, University of Arizona searcher Mark Chaves found that African - American churches are five times as likely as white churches to say they would apply for public funding if it were available.

funny thing is the Black Church is the same as the white church.

Not exact matches

With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of unloaded AR - 15s into World Peace and Unification Sanctuary for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for the Second Amendment.»

Ummmm... white churches are just as guilty as politicizing from the pulpit, as are hispanic churches, greek orthodox, etc etc..

Significant numbers of women clergy now see opposition to their intellectual positions as ineradicably linked to right - wing Christianity or as inextricably tied to a backlash on the part of white male members in the church.

Ok... first off, the Church (Roman Catholic), during the Middle Ages, as Christianity rolled across Europe, commissioned famous painters to depict Jesus as a White person, taking images of several Celtic & Norse gods to draw from.

It's not referred to as a Baptist church unless the members are mostly white southerners.

I had the option of converting to Catholicism when I married my husband and chose not to because of what I saw as a church run by a bunch of old, white men out of touch with the needs of women and people of diverse backgrounds.

$ 23 In a now familiar genre that combines heavy doses of self - pity with unbridled polemic against an allegedly homophobic society and church, Mel White, an evangelical Protestant who now works with a gay church in Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

It is an international church, but oftentimes people aren't as expposed to that information in the US because there is stigma about it being a «white» church here.

Apparently we are worried as a nation at the prospect of electing a Mormon to the White House but in 2008 electing an individual who attended a church which promoted hate, supported Islam, and announced that America got what it deserved with the terrorist attacks was ok.

I can just bet that there are just as many black gays as white gays so what is the problem with both black and white churchs?

As the article said, it's about a block away from the White House — it only serves a few blocks; most people don't drive into town to go to church on Sunday.

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.

That's the upshot of a new study that finds the decline in church attendance since the 1970s among white Americans without college degrees is twice as high as for those with college degrees.

As a white, privileged male, I especially have questions about whether the church would be better off without me.

What do you see as the major problems the Church needs to address regarding the division between African - American and white Christians?

As a Christian and mom of three who attends a non-denominational church in West Lake, California, White said the movie hit home for her.

To suggest to the churches, which, Negro as well as white, are already deeply involved in covert violence in this country and overt violence abroad, that they should violently take up arms against violence — that is, against themselves — is the height of political naïveté.

I became a Christian as an adult and then remained in that predominantly white church.

So it came as a bit of a shock to recognize that the churches we were visiting during our search had a different feel, a different sense of community and welcoming that we recognized as being part «Christian» and part «white» but did not fully resonate with us.

Churches tend to take on the cultural influences and traditions of its members and community, but how many predominantly white churches own a white identity and name its culture as beinChurches tend to take on the cultural influences and traditions of its members and community, but how many predominantly white churches own a white identity and name its culture as beinchurches own a white identity and name its culture as being white?

There was a sense of disintegration in the air of the Church - as if things were somehow falling apart, even though it was still possible to rally large numbers to St Peter «sSquare to observe the white smoke coming out of the chimney and to cheer the new Pope as he arrived on the balcony.

That is where the White Church may have some good work ahead in understanding its own culture, preferences, and strengths as well as differences within the White, dominant cultural experience.

The presence of the feminist consciousness among black women at Union and in the black church made it difficult to dismiss feminism as a concern of white women alone.

Today he's settled in a place where, while things are not as black and white as they were in the charismatic evangelical church he grew up in, he nevertheless believes that «Jesus really was who he said he was».

Frank Pomeroy, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, told a news outlet his family, as well as survivors of the massacre, have been invited to the ceremony at the White House.

I'd say uneducated, unsuccessful bitter racist white - trash fundamentalists (who are all about as sharp as a marble) are always the ones drawn to the KKK, John Birch, and fundamentalist «churches»... they're easy to amp up with hatred of a common enemy... which is what you see «churches» like Westboro Blabtist do... just look at the combination of zeal and hatred in their faces when they're on the news.

The prominent display of pictures and murals of a white Jesus in black churches is a slap in the face to those who understand Jesus as the liberator of oppressed blacks.

Ironically, while black theology theoretically relies heavily upon expressions of the people, such as freedom and sorrow songs and sermons, the more academic elites of black theology — those who have the luxury of tenure and endowed professorships in prestigious white seminaries and universities — seem to have little respect for the modern black church.

As president of a university that drew to itself all of New York's land - grant income besides a founder's ample endowment, White's dislike for the church colleges, intensified by their resentment of Cornell's wealth, drew him to appreciate the animosity Henry Tappan had experienced at Michigan:

Andy Crouch of Christianity Today, who is critical of much of the Emergent movement, praises JW as «the best singing white church I've ever been to.»

As a white girl living in South Carolina, I can tell you, I'm not welcome in their churches.

As a result, black churches likely have difficulty attracting white worshipers who are more traditional and have a less animated service.

The White House hopeful described her experience becoming a Christian as a 16 - year - old, when she said she walked into a church one day with some friends and felt called to the altar.

Mainline Protestant churches, Jewish synagogues, and LDS temples I've visited as guests are nearly 100 % white.

Supporters say Cone exposed the hypocrisy of white churches and gave voice to helpless, poor and oppressed Christians in places as far away as China and Latin America.

Families of the victims accompanied black and white hearses in limousines as fire marshals and sheriff's deputies shepherded hundreds more - some in funeral attire, others in everyday clothes - to the service in Floresville, Texas, about 12 miles from the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, where the shooting occurred.

On the other hand, he was certainly a great hero to the younger anti-Nazi campaigners, such as the «White Rose» group at Munich University (Hans and Sophie School — who were, incidentally, also inspired by the writings of another great Catholic, John Henry Newman) and the youth group at St Ludwig's Church in the same city who combined opposition to National Socialism with devout Catholicism and enthusiasm for the emerging liturgical movement.

After all, he said «he repented», and now, he is just working in the community as politician, and he represents more power for the White Evangelical Church.

Not surprising from a church... I'm still voting for Obama as a poor white boy.

We have memories of Sunday school and Bible camp; an early suspicion of adult Christianity as hypocrisy; a sense of complicity between church and dancing school — both drawing on a common list of acceptable folk and equally mad about white cotton gloves.

Indeed, as a free nation, with a TRUE Separation of Church and State we can go forward now, knowing that NOBODY will ever give a mormon a second chance for the White House.

One need only look at President Jimmy Carter, who went so far as to teach Sunday school at his local Baptist church, to see how a sitting president can make room for faith, said Balmer of Dartmouth, who counts among his many books «God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.»

The Huffington Post: Whites - Only Christian Conference Held In Alabama By Pastor William J. Collier's Church of God's Chosen Pastor William J. Collier and his Church of God's Chosen are holding a Christian conference and all are invited - as long as they are white.

in NC they go to the same church you know as white people.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

------ Chuck, The point is there is no such thing as a black church or white church.

At the same time, white and black Methodists began mixing at camp meetings and churches (though with some of the restraint that would later manifest as segregation, leading to the birth of the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion churches).