Not exact matches
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).
Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant
churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at
least in this profile — is on the
white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline
churches.
Just curious, whether you are
white, black, Asian, Hispanic or other, if the couple getting married isn't a member of the
church (or at
least one of the couple) why would they even want to get married there anyway?
Among voters who attend services at
least monthly, only 16 percent of
white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of
white mainline Protestants said that their
churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.
But it should now be clear to
white and black churchmen alike that the theological differences between them are very real, and that they form barriers which, in my opinion at
least, are insurmountable for the present generation unless, of course,
white churches are ready to make a radical commitment to the fight for justice on behalf of the oppressed.
As is well known today (at
least in the academic circles of the black
church), Richard Allen is commonly considered the father of the black
church because of his refusal to be a member of a congregation where
white Christians were making the house of God an instrument in the dehumanization of black people.
Mr. de Blasio regularly attends
church services with his wife at African - American and protestant
churches, which political observers privately argue has done little to boost his brand in
white, Catholic enclaves — where, according to at
least one report, residents feel neglected by the mayor.
At
least one work, Dawoud Bey's «Birmingham Project,» from 2013, is directly related to the city: It commemorates the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist
church by
white supremacists, in which four young girls were killed.
Also, it may be possible that I am confusing the colors — the color for the Hay curve is somewhat similar to the color for the
Church &
White 2011 curve (at
least on my screen).