Sentences with phrase «in black churches»

They will be using this new partnership to build financial literacy ministries in black churches.

Nor is it found in black churches.

Clinton can be a preacher who connects with his audience (especially in black churches) through biblical passages.

Black theology has had some rootage in the black churches, but its acceptance in them has been disappointingly limited.

He said it's true, in general blacks feel more welcome in white churches - PARTICULARLY evangelical churches - than whites are made to feel welcome in black churches (although ministers themselves would love to have more white or hispanic attendees... but the parishioners in these black churches often disagree with that philosophy.

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).

Miseducation, poor self - esteem and the failure of black Christians to understand and appreciate their own history and culture is a real problem in black churches.

One obvious point of division between black theologians and black church people is that black theology is not generally taught in black churches, state and national conventions, regional associations, ministers» conferences or Christian education congresses.

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.

«I've said many times in black churches that the black church is on the wrong side of history on this.

Bryan T. Calvin on why his African American family intentionally attends a white church, even when he misses his upbringing in black churches.

you will see whites in a white church, blacks in a black church and latinos in a latino church.

I loved worshipping in a black church.

It's a bit of a peculiar sight, a white man in a black church, on his knees, wailing indecipherably, but passionately into the microphone in the corner of the choir stand.

They also remembered the spiritual power of the [civil rights] meetings,» especially the singing, with a passion and feeling rooted in the black church.

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 Houston.

But the meaning it had for Equiano was a bit different from that assigned to it by our young contemporaries, responsive to calls for «social justice,» and from long - established commitments in the black church.

The pastors need to start with the gays leading the choirs in the black church and go back to the truth -10 commandments.

But so much of popular music started in the black church, and today the black church talked back.

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.

That God is both good and powerful is taken for granted in the black church, and if any inexplicable contradiction emerges, black Christians always appeal to God's mystery, quoting the often repeated lines, «God moves in a mysterious way.»

The weight of the problem of evil in the black church was not located primarily in terms of God's need to justify himself in view of the presence of suffering in the world.

God may be black for academic theologians, but this perspective has not trickled down to the majority of folk who preach and worship in the black 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.

oh not sure if it makes a difference to you... but i am a black man that was raised in the black church... and still go occasionally... just to put things in context

For example, in the black church services I have attended, the congregants will urge on the preacher during a sermon.

Singing about the «Hoochie Coochie Man» Cone said his passion for justice comes from growing up in the black church.

I was also once the only white in a black church in CT..

«To the average congregation in the black church, those are some very serious charges,» Lee said, referring to the men's charges against Long.

When someone gets in a black church and sings a song they've lived through, the whole congregation has lived through it.

There is a great potential, I believe, in particular for dreaming and doing in the black church.

It is not surprising that in the past two decades church social action movements fell apart (with perhaps the notable exception of those in the black church).

In a black church the folks held in slavery by the evil folks are, not illogically, compared to the history of blacks in the USA.I mean who are the evil folks to be compared to?Wright just wants them to repent and stop their evil.If in the Catholic Church 80 % of the folks do nt practice what the Priest says (Or agree apparently) but still attend why would you think that a protestant would take every thing his pastor says as «Gospel»?

L. Gregory Jones, dean at Duke Divinity School, agrees that Oprah's roots in the black church experience lend the television personality some of her authority.

Membership in the black church should be based upon commitment to Christ and the liberation of oppressed people.

How can they possibly claim a place in the black church?

The revelation of God in the black church and in the lives and experience of black Christians has laid an obligation on black people: their task is to stand everywhere in the world as a Christian symbol of God's opposition to oppression.

I grew up in the black church tradition, and in the black church tradition, we talk about speaking truth to power in a prophetic voice.

In the black church, women (and men) often judge the effectiveness of the worship service not on the scholarly content of the sermon nor on the ritual nor on orderly process.

The Bible, a major source in black church liturgy, must also be subjected to the scrutiny of justice principles.

Streng has been seen in the Black Church circuit lately in Mount Vernon and his mobile billboard made it debut, Sunday afternoon in the Food Bazaar parking lot behind the stage at Arts On Third.

How those in power in the Black church make empty promises and manipulate unmarried African American women to stay single in the name of God.

With African American race car driver Bill Lester's historic win at the Grand - Am Road Racing, the light has now been shined on other Black racers who have How those in power in the Black church make empty promises and manipulate unmarried African American women to stay single in the name of God.

Nine people were shot in a black church by a white guy who hated them, who wanted to start some kind of civil war.

The black church has not been a very welcoming place for them — not that white churches have been much better but the many in the black church have used its association with civil rights to shield itself from its social conservatism.

Not exact matches

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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Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

Just this year a black couple was not allowed to marry in a church due to their race.

How about we get some LARGER FONT LARGER GRAPHICS front - paged stories on Romney being a Bishop in the Mormon church who had some pretty abhorrent policies before 1980, while Romney was a member, including the exclusion of black men from the priesthood up until Mormons were pressured to remove that provision in 1978.