Sentences with phrase «conservative black churches»

Some of the conservative black churches have an actual policy of exclusion, which extends to a ban on church burial.

Ironically, a disproportionate amount of the credit goes to conservative black churches with no AIDS programs and no specific AIDS message — the churches regularly accused of having their heads in the sand.

Hertzke acknowledges that Jackson's sympathy for the left's agenda on the family, gay rights, and abortion has generated tensions among culturally conservative black church leaders, but he argues that racial pride has proved a more potent appeal among Jackson's black constituents.

Not exact matches

They are called black churches because of their perspective, which is often far different than those of Conservative White churches.

To map that landscape, Roof and McKinney divide Americans into eight religious families: liberal Protestants (Presbyterians, Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ), roughly 9 per cent of the population; moderate Protestants (United Methodists, Lutherans, Disciples, American Baptists, Reformed), 24 per cent; conservative Protestants (including Southern Baptists, Churches of Christ, Nazarenes, Pentecostal and holiness groups, and evangelicals and fundamentalists), 16 per cent; black Protestants, 16 per cent; Catholics.

Although thrilled that the priesthood is no longer denied to black men, LDS liberals tend to feel uncomfortable as the leaders of the church articulate generally conservative positions.

(The Democratic candidates find their way to black churches, the Republicans to conservative white ones.)

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

This failure is perhaps due to the cultural distance between the English - dominated mainline churches and working - class blacks — many of whom also find the charismatics» conservative theology more appealing.

What I have to say may apply to some other churches in some respects, but I emphatically do not have the Korean churches or the Black churches or the conservative evangelical churches or the charismatic churches in mind as I write.

For example, his work Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church integrates post-modern dance techniques and theories with «voguing,» a stylized dance emerging from Black American drag culture originating in the Harlem ballrooms of the»80s; along with the Japanese dance form «butoh,» a surrealist, abject art that emerged as a refutation of conservative ideals in postwar Japan.