Sentences with phrase «in white churches»

This was their spirit of ecumenism, and it still exists in the white churches of this nation.

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.

American Christianity still has plenty of Millennials — they're just not necessarily in white churches.

The fact that so many of these white nationalist Charlottesville demonstrators were in white churches on Sunday means we're not doing our job.

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.

But in the white churches this recognition had only peripheral effects until the leadership of the black churches forced decisions.

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

Thge King of the Jews propesies in Hosea and Exekiel are not taught in White church, but Hosea is explicit that this King would be Ephraimite, while Ezekieel adds the lineage of Perez also.

But they sure enough did not let them in the white church.

Not exact matches

The First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was a soft white target with a red front door and three flagpoles standing tall in the yard.

Following Sunday's tragedy and the unsurprising response out of Washington, Twitter users were quick to point out the cruel irony of the tired statement: the victims of this latest act of domestic terrorism were in church, literally engaged in prayer, when they were viciously attacked by a white man wielding a legal gun.

With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of unloaded AR - 15s into World Peace and Unification Sanctuary for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for the Second Amendment.»

If in the West you go to church and see a woman with her hair uncovered, the Igbo man will have a prejudice against it and ask the Igbo woman to dress like the white one does.

CNN: Pastor risks church for his principles Before Sunday morning services, the Rev. Oliver White looked at the rows of empty pews in his tiny St. Paul, Minnesota, church without regret.

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..

Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

In an interview with BBC Radio 4 Today over the weekend, Rev. Andrew White, the vicar of Iraq's only Anglican church, said that the situation caused by ISIS rebels is...

Significant numbers of women clergy now see opposition to their intellectual positions as ineradicably linked to right - wing Christianity or as inextricably tied to a backlash on the part of white male members in the church.

One time not too long ago when talking to my grandmother about church, she told me that some blacks had visited her white mega church in Tuscaloosa.

Generic brand theological statements in low churches will never be enough and nearly all such churches end up amending the statements, producing white papers, or announcing at some level new conclusions about pressing theological concerns.

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.

After reading Jeffrey Weiss's piece, White Churches uncommonly quiet after Zimmerman verdict, I was struck by two things: First, how often I recall race being mentioned in CNN pieces I've read covering the death of Trayvon Marton.

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.

$ 23 In a now familiar genre that combines heavy doses of self - pity with unbridled polemic against an allegedly homophobic society and church, Mel White, an evangelical Protestant who now works with a gay church in Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat RobertsoIn a now familiar genre that combines heavy doses of self - pity with unbridled polemic against an allegedly homophobic society and church, Mel White, an evangelical Protestant who now works with a gay church in Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertsoin Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

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

In an interview with BBC Radio 4 Today over the weekend, Rev. Andrew White, the vicar of Iraq's only Anglican church, said that the situation caused by ISIS rebels is so bad that it could be the end of Christianity in the regioIn an interview with BBC Radio 4 Today over the weekend, Rev. Andrew White, the vicar of Iraq's only Anglican church, said that the situation caused by ISIS rebels is so bad that it could be the end of Christianity in the regioin the region.

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.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themeIn between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

The white one had fallen away; the black one had remained active and raised his family in the church, and their friends had also joined.

It is an international church, but oftentimes people aren't as expposed to that information in the US because there is stigma about it being a «white» church here.

None, other than the LDS, believe that one (male only, and until recent time, white only) can only get a pass into the celestial realm if given by the LDS church, after the believer proves that he abides by church doctrine in all aspects of his life.

He doesn't want to be questioned about his church because once he is in the White House he does not want anyone to know that his church elder will be running the country.

Apparently we are worried as a nation at the prospect of electing a Mormon to the White House but in 2008 electing an individual who attended a church which promoted hate, supported Islam, and announced that America got what it deserved with the terrorist attacks was ok.

My commentary on this post is this — Having been raised in a Christian Church, I have never been able to understand why White people (meaning folks from Aryan population groups from Western Europe) insist on making Jesus out to be White.

Despite intense media speculation about which Washington church Obama would join when he arrived in Washington, the White House has yet to announce that he has joined any, though the president sometimes attends chapel at Camp David.

I am a white woman that attended a church with mostly white couples, but I would have loved having you and your husband in my church.

For example, the practice, still observed in many churches, of wearing a red flower in honor of living mothers and a white flower in memory of deceased mothers originated in a florist jingle, promoted tirelessly by the industry in hopes of widening the variety of flowers associated with the day and thus enlarging Jarvis's own emphasis on white carnations.

But instead, we often simply maintain the status quo in our churches and on our conference stages and in our non-profits or parachurch ministries: white men up front and in the lead.

We were surprised to meet Anthony there: a twenty - six - year - old white man in an argyle sweater vest, white dress shirt, tie, baggy plaid pants, and sneakers, at the old Methodist church in Maytown, Ohio, whose white steeple rises behind the trees in our backyard.

Drew Hart is the author of Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism, which released in January and which tackles police brutality, mass incarceration, antiblack stereotypes, poverty, and everyday acts of racism by placing them in the larger framework of white supremacy.

I grew up in Detroit, among urban, working - class blacks while my white mother sent me to a suburban, lily white, private Christian school and a large, white Baptist Church who denied me baptism in 1987 for being «half - black.»

That's the upshot of a new study that finds the decline in church attendance since the 1970s among white Americans without college degrees is twice as high as for those with college degrees.

Lisa Lynne Mathis sings at the Riverside Church in New York City and is the music director of Presence, a contemporary worship service in White Plains, New York.

Recently I stood in the pulpit of my church and looked over the top of a white, 32 - inch - long casket at a young...

Kelly Lyn Logue is the pastor of membership care and evangelism at White Plains United Methodist Church in Cary, North Carolina.

St. Paul, Minnesota (CNN)-- Before Sunday morning services, the Rev. Oliver White looked at the rows of empty pews in his tiny St. Paul, Minnesota, church without regret.

As a Christian and mom of three who attends a non-denominational church in West Lake, California, White said the movie hit home for her.

To suggest to the churches, which, Negro as well as white, are already deeply involved in covert violence in this country and overt violence abroad, that they should violently take up arms against violence — that is, against themselves — is the height of political naïveté.