Sentences with phrase «black ministers»
I learned my morals from my parents, not black ministers.
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That was a question which black ministers did not ask.
Delman Coates at Mt. Ennon Baptist Church is among a minority of black ministers in Maryland who have endorsed gay rights.
Astorino has been trying to duplicate his noteworthy success in attracting minority votes as the Westchester County executive by meeting with influential black ministers in WNY.
In Baltimore, Emmett Burns, a politically well - connected black minister who said he supported Obama in 2008, held an event at Rising Sun Baptist Church to publicly withdraw support from the president over Obama's same - sex marriage support.
When asked about his work with black ministers to shore up community support for charter schools, the light - skinned council member cheerfully explains why he undertook this role, «I'm African American, in case you can't tell.»
Republican 2016 frontrunner Donald Trump defied the critics, gathering more than 100 black ministers for a Midtown meeting despite pressure to steer clear of the GOP presidential front - runner.
Martin King taught black ministers that the meaning of Christianity was inextricably linked with the fight for justice in the society.
The Chicago - based black minister says he lost his church building and about 6,000 members when he began preaching that gays and lesbians were accepted by God.
It did not take long for the word «Black» to replace the word «Negro,» as black ministers struggled with the religious meaning of Martin and Malcolm.
Malcolm challenged black ministers to take a critical look at Christianity, Martin King, and the civil rights movement.
White religious leaders tried to force militant black ministers to choose between Martin and Malcolm, integration and separation, Christianity and Black Power.
Unfortunately black ministers and theologians were strongly influenced by the white way of thinking about God and theology.
And like Smith in Washington, plenty of black ministers talked about distinguishing between opposition to same - sex marriage and views about Obama.
«Why didn't you object when I was being endorsed for re-election last year by prominent black ministers and current and past leaders of the NAACP?»
Even before Cynthia Nixon announced her candidacy last week at the Bethesda Healing Center in Brooklyn, she consulted with several black ministers and activists.
Over the weekend, a group of black ministers sent Nixon (and the New York Daily News) a demand for a formal apology.
A South Side political operative with close ties to Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner has been charged with a misdemeanor crime accusing him of sending a bogus letter to the editor that carried the signatures of five black ministers who did not write it.
A group of black ministers is meeting with the Hampton Chamber of Commerce to try to defuse the situation, and a threat to pull black kids out of school in protest is waning.
Malcolm X taught black ministers and scholars that the identity of African - Americans as a people was inextricably linked with blackness.
«Should I become President of the United States count upon me for absolute fair dealing for everything by which I could assist in advancing their «interests of the race,»» Wilson wrote in a letter to a black minister.
Some black ministers are staying faithful to the word of God - even though it is obviously painful to them to oppose Obama.
I find it amazing that these black ministers who have experienced discrimination through their whole lives can not see that this issue is also one of discrimination.
Some black ministers should go back in time and study up on issues of discrimination.
Lucifer is using the church of God (these black ministers) to spread hatred, however, know the lord sayeth that you should be able to see a false prophet and a false preacher by his words and actions.
Suppose you are a black minister who does not care to swathe himself in the trappings of white theology's pretensions to scientific clubbishness.
this is certainly wrong, gay people are humans and deserve the same rights, but don't kid yourself the black ministers are preaching the same thing toward whites, just don't get the press.
There should be a TOTAL condemnation from the black ministers.
Before Martin and Malcolm, black ministers and religious thinkers repeated the doctrines and mimicked the theologies they read and heard in white churches and seminaries, grateful to be allowed to worship God in an integrated sanctuary and to study theology with whites in a seminary classroom.
The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, a black minister of the American Baptist Church and longtime Harvard chaplain, wrote in the Boston Globe: «When lawyers, the courts, and the media all seem complicit in the cycle of vengeance and blood and no closure short of decapitation seems acceptable, then we have reason to worry about the climate for justice, mercy, and charity; and Salem in 1692 seems not so far removed in moral climate from Boston in 2002.»
In every major city of our country there has been created, or there is in the process of formation, Afro - American patrolmen's leagues, black lawyers guilds, black teachers» associations, Afro - American firemen s leagues, black doctors» societies, black ministers» caucuses.
I taught a course last fall with a black minister in his church in downtown Atlanta on «The Mission and Ministry of a Local Church.»
They have vilified the black minister — respected as the «proper» spokesman for the black community by whites — as a «crook» and an Uncle Tom.
This situation has meant that the black church generally has played a different role in the sexual identity of the black minister than in that of the white minister.
Former Bill Clinton adviser Guy Smith will introduce state Rep. Charlie Stallworth, a black minister from...
Former Bill Clinton adviser Guy Smith will introduce state Rep. Charlie Stallworth, a black minister from Bridgeport, as his running mate Friday.
The Rev. Michael Walrond, a black minister with ties to the Rev. Al Sharpton, received 6 % in a recent poll, potentially taking votes from Rangel, who is African - American.
Rep. Charlie Stallworth, a black minister from Bridgeport drafted by Democratic gubernatorial petitioner Guy Smith this week to be his running mate, finished with less than 2 percent of the vote in the lieutenant governor race.
«I get calls from reporters when some black ministers are critical of [Mr. de Blasio].
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A South Side political operative with close ties to Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner has been charged with a misdemeanor crime accusing him of sending a bogus letter to the editor that carried the signatures of five black ministers who did not write it.
Black politicians, Black Lives Matter, and a chorus of black ministers all took her to task for using the r - word.
Forget, for a second, that black ministers have for generations been usually the one and only conduit to black people for centrist Democrats like Andrew Cuomo.
Within these tales, McBride condenses all his trademark humor and insight into slender scenes of history and humanity, from a story about a toy that's passed from Robert E. Lee to a black minister in Queens, to a vignette starring an American president who overhears an inspiring conversation.
An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens.