Sentences with phrase «of white churches»

Certainly I present no theological objections to blacks» becoming members of white churches or to whites» becoming members of black congregations.

The average black Christian who knows of this act is unable to grasp its significance — unable to see that, with Allen, God and the Spirit of Christ were also walking out of the white churches of these United States.

Supporters say Cone exposed the hypocrisy of white churches and gave voice to helpless, poor and oppressed Christians in places as far away as China and Latin America.

His book is not just a memoir of growing up in the Jim Crow era; it's a blistering takedown of white churches, and one of America's greatest theologians, Reinhold Niebuhr - a colossal figure often cited by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..

The mission leader was shocked to discover that some of the white church members were unhappy that the children of the language students were being allowed to play with the Sunday school toys during the lessons, on the basis that their own children might «catch something».

In the same way, the future of the black - white ecumenical movement must be based upon the commitment of the white church to Christ and liberation.

The future of the black - white ecumenical movement must be based upon the commitment of the white church to Christ and liberation.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

of course the kkk was supported by the southern white churches.

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?»

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

I think one reason fewer black people join the LDS church is because they see a lot of white faces and assume (prejudice?

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.

«I have experienced true communion, fire - like transformation, unbending faith, white - hot hope, and resurrection of the soul all outside of sterile church walls.»

It's been revealed a Church of England initiative to improve clergy diversity features mostly white,... More

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.

Ok... first off, the Church (Roman Catholic), during the Middle Ages, as Christianity rolled across Europe, commissioned famous painters to depict Jesus as a White person, taking images of several Celtic & Norse gods to draw from.

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.

What if our children were accustomed to seeing black pastors of majority white churches, and vice-versa?

I had the option of converting to Catholicism when I married my husband and chose not to because of what I saw as a church run by a bunch of old, white men out of touch with the needs of women and people of diverse backgrounds.

$ 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 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 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 themes.

«While «ethnic» churches continue to cater to Latino immigrants, white, non-Latino Catholics now place less emphasis on the importance of the Church,» the UNL study says.

On a side note, there are more Latino members of the LDS church than there are White.

Last week, Lentz posted a black and white photo of the church's leadership team on Instagram, explaining:

Want a dominant church that just (by coincidence, of course) chooses only it's members for any leadership, along with a few «Token» women and non-whites, just to crush any white males not of the faith that might compete?

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.

White pastors and white evangelical leaders must speak prophetically about racism and help intentionally build church communities that more closely resemble the kingdom of God of Revelation 5 aWhite pastors and white evangelical leaders must speak prophetically about racism and help intentionally build church communities that more closely resemble the kingdom of God of Revelation 5 awhite evangelical leaders must speak prophetically about racism and help intentionally build church communities that more closely resemble the kingdom of God of Revelation 5 and 7.

Burke equated the newly created job to being the director of communications at the White House, noting he won't be out front delivering the message for the church.

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.

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

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.

That white churches would send ministers to Mississippi to stand with the «crazy niggers,» however briefly, affirming to the world the soundness of what they were doing, was a powerful symbolic act.

Here is the Surgeon General of the U.S. by inference laying the blame for the AIDS epidemic at the feet of the U.S. government, the Roman Catholic Church, the conservative press («the stridently conservative Washington Times»), Phyllis Schlafly (whom he describes as «beneath contempt» because she opposed him on his proposed condom solution), and a sinister cabal of White House conservatives led by Carl Anderson.

The voices of white pastors and predominantly white churches and religious groups?

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

One of the ministers» principal aims was to reach out to the local white community, especially the clergy and churches, looking for a chance to talk about the changes whites were having to face.

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.

On the first Sunday of the new urban campus, the white male pastor who had zero urban ministry experience, brashly declared to the mostly black audience, «This ain't your grandmomma's church.»

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.

soliciting white male leaders of the emergent church willing to cover it all up for their crony.