Sentences with phrase «black churches across»

7 predominantly - black churches across the South have been burned down since the racially - inspired terrorist attack in...

I will be watching the black churches across the country and see if they vote color or conscience.

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As little country churches all across America denounce the black President, and tell the congregation that it is their christian duty to vote for romney.

I purposely sought out a diverse church — one that was across all ethniticies (black, white, asian and hispanic)-- because it is important that my children are exposed to and interact with folks from all backgrounds.

They helped democratize America's churches, empowering the laity — male and female, black and white — to carry the gospel across the country.

Then the recurring break outs of black christian churches getting torched across this country.

Marked with a black Christian cross tattooed across their forehead, now they walk the urban landscape as outcasts, tied to the city by a sacred vow not to defy the Church.

Mr. Black concluded by reminding «all of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are less than by their churches or by the government or by their families that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.»

The Black Church has been a cornerstone of African American community and activism for centuries, and its role has subjected it to repeated and vicious attacks from the original Klu Klux Klan of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, through the rise of the Second Klan in the 1920s and the waves of riots and violence inflicted upon African American communities across the country, to the waves of violence against the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

While it does require a short hike up a hill, the church offers magnificent views across the city and the Rhine and further away into the Black Forest itself.

The connections across time of the physical space of the old Mt. Zion church where the South Carolina Black Convention was held in 1865 and the modern A.M.E. churches at Mother Emanuel and Mt. Zion in Charleston that I discussed in my prior post have led me to think about how the voices from that convention 150 years ago still speak to us.