Sentences with phrase «at black churches»

Designed for distribution at black churches around the state, «A Stone's Throw» relies exclusively on testimony of African American parents, students, educators and education - reform advocates, each with praise to sing about the wonders of charters schools or a lament about the lack of charters in Mississippi — even though the phrase «charter school» doesn't appear until a quarter through the film.

Mr. Cuomo wound up finding an audience at black churches each of the last two Sundays — rare back - to - back appearances for him at the pulpit.

Here's a brief clip from my interview last night with the New York State Catholic Conference's spokesman Dennis Poust, who chastised (albeit gently) the Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner, Andrew Cuomo, for his recent spate of politicking at black churches in NYC.

I went to a funeral at an all black church and never thought «Aww, this is so sad.

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.

In an appearance at a black church, Bulworth scraps his speech and admits that the Democratic party just doesn't care about the African - American community.

Like many such events, this Sunday afternoon protest began at a black church although it was organized by the NAACP.

Not exact matches

is anything but a rhetorical question at many a black church; it's a cultural reality.

Governor Nikki Haley called on Monday afternoon for the Confederate flag to be removed from the Capitol grounds in Columbia, saying «it's time to move the flag» in a news conference that came five days after nine people were shot to death at a historic black church in Charleston.

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Fires have damaged or destroyed at least six American Black - majority churches in the past week since... More

The decision comes at a time when racial tensions in the US are high after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.

CNN producer Tommy Andres talks about his story and video «Finding God in the Mississippi Delta,» about a young white man with cerebral palsy who can't walk or talk but who finds his voice at an all - black church.

David A. Love, a journalist who writes for Atlanta Black Star newspaper, said: «As the nation grapples with the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., one of the oldest Black churches in the South, other Black churches have become recent targets of arson.

All of the incidents come after a white gunman killed nine black worshippers at a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

A white man charged in connection with the massacre of nine black parishioners at a church in America... More

A friend of the man accused of shooting nine black Christians during a Bible study at a church in the... More

Hence there are Church members today who continue to summon and teach at every level of Church education the racial discourse that black people are descendants of Cain, that they merited lesser earthly privilege because they were «fence - sitters» in the War in Heaven, and that, science and climatic factors aside, there is a link between skin color and righteousness» Mormon scripture specifically referencing race includes (from the Book of Mormon): 1 Nephi 11:8 1 Nephi 11:13 1 Nephi 12:23 1 Nephi 13:15 2 Nephi 5:21 2 Nephi 30:6 (1830 edition) Jacob 3:8 Alma 3:6 3 Nephi 2:15 Mormon 5:15

The Harvard president said she would allow the black Mass to continue, citing the value of free expression on campus, but planned attend a prayer ceremony Monday night at St. Paul's Church in Cambridge.

That broke away from the Baptist Church because they did not want Blacks at all in the Church.

The chapter covering this period is one of the best in the book, with its careful account of how Bonhoeffer's censorious judgment of the superficiality of American religious liberalism gradually gave way to admiration for the central place of social justice and for the vital religious faith of the oppressed black Christians whom he met at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.

In the same way, African American friends have said that the fact that the Black church survived or that Native Americans still love Jesus is one of the greatest signs that God is at work in the world that we can ever imagine, considering the hideous, terrible things that we have done in His name.

There was a security, love, and wonder I sensed (at an early age) that only Catholics had ¯ the hushed, steepled churches and the priests; the parish school with veiled nuns whose black habits swept the floors; the picture of the pope on the bedroom wall, a strange man with what looked like an eggshell on his head who gave the sense of a wider world and eternity.

While popular in the black church, it is not a solely black phenomenon, as seen in the ministry of Osteen, a best - selling author and megapastor at Lakewood Church in Hochurch, it is not a solely black phenomenon, as seen in the ministry of Osteen, a best - selling author and megapastor at Lakewood Church in HoChurch in Houston.

I found myself in a crowd that seemed to be made up of at least half a million people, crushed between the walls on either side of the road as they made their way to the Church of the Black Virgin.

Michael Battle is assistant professor of spirituality and black church studies at Duke University and vice chair of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.

A sea of Catholic devotees jostle for position as they try to touch the life - size statue of the Black Nazarene as it arrive at the Quiapo Church during the annual procession in honor of the centuries - old icon of Jesus Christ in Manila on January 9, 2013.

As an African American woman, it tells me that the Church is not interested in Calvary - like reconciliation; we'd rather stop short at empty words of «I'm with the blacks» and insensitive generalizations like «they were godly; they were happy» and uneducated assumptions that, because you have not heard, seen, or have been party to mistreatment, it doesn't exist.

I described being uncomfortable at events like the Cowboy Olympics, my fears that I would never marry as I was often the only black single in the church, how at times I felt strange or like an alien as well - meaning friends would ask questions about my hair and skin, etc..

They are often seen in the back pew, if they come to church at all, wearing black.

Sunday worship at a black Baptist church wasn't just long.

I believe in my soul that the evangelical church missed an opportunity over at least two decades to be the Black Lives Matter movement.

Social justice causes, candles in worship services, v - necks and big neck tattoos on worship leaders, screenings of PT Anderson films at church, heavy use of Helvetica font in church bulletins, bald pastors who always wear black clothes from Banana Republic, beer at church barbecues, a renewed interest in corporately reading ancient creeds or prayers, Nooma videos, Sufjan Stevens and everything related to Sufjan Stevens.

Mr. Caldwell, minister of First United Methodist Church, New Haven, Connecticut, also serves as lecturer at Yale University divinity school and as chairman of the board, National Conference of Black Churchmen.

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.

Editor's Note: Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania and is an expert on Black churches, evangelicalism and the religious right.

How «radical» can an idea of not allowing blacks to marry at their church.

Although my studies at these two schools introduced me to the scope and depth of Western thought on the issue of evil, the way in which the problem was defined was quite different from its definition in the black church.

I still see whites in black churches and I go to a majority white church with at least 6 black families (and other minority groups).

If you look at the Pentecostal churches, there are young black people who are absolutely engaged because they can see images of themselves.

The Holy Spirit's interruption of this world at Pentecost with a new community of Jews and gentiles, privileged and marginalized, is not realized in the church in the U.S. Ninety percent of African - American Christians worship in all - black churches.

«There is an increase now in house churches,» said Fry Brown, the director of black church studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

I remember being at a church in Virginia, and the only black woman was the maid of my friend's mother.

You will definately be able to tell whether it is a «Black Christian Church», «White Christian Church» or a «Latino Christian Church» just by looking at the faces of the parishoners.

Previous Pew Research Center studies found that Hispanic Christians attend church more regularly than their white counterparts, and black Protestants are retaining young churchgoers at higher rates than any other group.

«Because of the fact that we were black, some of the members of the congregation had got upset and decided that no black couple would ever be married at that church,» Charles Wilson told CNN on Sunday night.

Hence there are Church members today who continue to summon and teach at every level of Church education the racial discourse that black people are descendants of Cain, that they merited lesser earthly privilege because they were «fence - sitters» in the War in Heaven, and that, science and climatic factors aside, there is a link between skin color and righteousness»

Moreover, churches and parachurch organizations continue to grow at a spectacular rate, especially independent evangelical and black African indigenous churches.

We need to stop scapegoating and look at the problem in our own back yard - and YES, that means the Black Church.

Just curious, whether you are white, black, Asian, Hispanic or other, if the couple getting married isn't a member of the church (or at least one of the couple) why would they even want to get married there anyway?