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).
That was why I identified the gospel with black power and
the white church with the Antichrist.
Streets are paved and narrow, while many
white churches with blue domes are scattered here and there.
One of the most photographed islands in Greece, stunning Santorini is famed for its whitewashed houses, dug like caves into the steep hillside,
its white churches with blue domes and its memorable sunsets.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
I can just bet that there are just as many black gays as
white gays so what is the problem
with both black and
white churchs?
Now if I don't even keep up
with my dues I certainly don't expect my
white associate to lose his
church about the matter.
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.
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.
-- 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.
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.
So it came as a bit of a shock to recognize that the
churches we were visiting during our search had a different feel, a different sense of community and welcoming that we recognized as being part «Christian» and part «
white» but did not fully resonate
with us.
Here is an interview
with Rick
White, pastor of City View
Church talking about how the arts can be used to reach postmodern Krakow.
Your disillusionment
with the
Church may seem like a petty wound to nurse right now,
with Latino children getting taunted by their classmates, Muslim communities facing religious persecution, and black families grappling
with a world in which
white nationalism has been validated and emboldened, but grief is grief.
The Asian American Christian
church is extremely diverse, vibrant, multigenerational, and cutting edge with all the struggles and concerns of the historically White Church - evangelical and mai
church is extremely diverse, vibrant, multigenerational, and cutting edge
with all the struggles and concerns of the historically
White Church - evangelical and mai
Church - evangelical and mainline.
O'Reilly's latest point of contention — that Santa is verifiably «
white» — added an amusing flavor to what has become an annual ritual; one which is played out primarily via bumper stickers, front lawn decorations,
Church bulletin boards, and awkward exchanges
with grocery cashiers.
The common wisdom of
church developers at the time was simple: where there is a pool of
white, middle - class, home - owning families
with children, mainline
churches are likely to grow, no matter what their theological orientation.
Yes, Barack Obama is the wrong type of Christian for
white evangelicals in America, they are willing to fall head over heels in love
with Mitt Romney the Mormon, of which most of these
churches have preached against this religious group from the inception that it's a CULT and you need to stay away from that type of doctrine.
I'd say uneducated, unsuccessful bitter racist
white - trash fundamentalists (who are all about as sharp as a marble) are always the ones drawn to the KKK, John Birch, and fundamentalist «
churches»... they're easy to amp up
with hatred of a common enemy... which is what you see «
churches» like Westboro Blabtist do... just look at the combination of zeal and hatred in their faces when they're on the news.
Largely excluded from the PFNA when the whites were joining the NAE, and more likely to find solidarity
with the other black
churches than
with the
white Pentecostals or evangelicals, these
churches are much less tempted by a fundamentalist identity.
But King and the black
church also fused the Social Gospel
with an emotional fervor missing from
white Protestant
churches, Bass says.
This error in understanding is why our
churches are filled
with adultery and filled
with homosexuality and filled
with divorce; hardly a bride dressed in
white.
Who can forget the historic Emanuel AME
Church of Charleston, SC, a black church that welcomed a young white man into their midst — a welcome that was unfortunately met with unspeakable vio
Church of Charleston, SC, a black
church that welcomed a young white man into their midst — a welcome that was unfortunately met with unspeakable vio
church that welcomed a young
white man into their midst — a welcome that was unfortunately met
with unspeakable violence.
Alleged
church shooter Dylann Roof was a
white supremacist who posted pictures of himself posing
with the flag online.
Mormonism is the most demonic, satanic, devilish
church on earth, for the believe that Jesus Christ and satan are spiritual brothers; they believe that they will become a god
with their own planets; they beleive that black people are inferior to
white and they are cursed from Yahweh.
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.
Now, the actual Mormon
church is hitting the Great
White Way,
with a big electronic billboard just around the corner from where «The Book of Mormon» is playing.
I purposely sought out a diverse
church — one that was across all ethniticies (black,
white, asian and hispanic)-- because it is important that my children are exposed to and interact
with folks from all backgrounds.
I'm
white and attended a black
church recently
with a friend, and while I was certainly made to feel welcome, I must say I felt a bit out of place.
The
White House hopeful described her experience becoming a Christian as a 16 - year - old, when she said she walked into a
church one day
with some friends and felt called to the altar.
My grandparents worship in a what I consider catholic
church with hyms while I worship in a non-denom
church with more popular music... they love their
church & I love my
church & I love my grandparents & they love me... oh & we are all
white.
I went to a
Church in Overland Park Kansas which was diverse
with good music and a
white Pastor who spoke well.
On the other hand, he was certainly a great hero to the younger anti-Nazi campaigners, such as the «
White Rose» group at Munich University (Hans and Sophie School — who were, incidentally, also inspired by the writings of another great Catholic, John Henry Newman) and the youth group at St Ludwig's
Church in the same city who combined opposition to National Socialism
with devout Catholicism and enthusiasm for the emerging liturgical movement.
Indeed, as a free nation,
with a TRUE Separation of
Church and State we can go forward now, knowing that NOBODY will ever give a mormon a second chance for the
White House.
Besides Dr. Theophilus and his wife, there were the chaplain of the military cantonment and his wife; a retired woman principal of a girls» school, dressed in an immaculate
white sari; and some other people associated
with the local
church.
For now, the
church building itself has been turned into a memorial —
with the entire inside painted
white, and all of the furniture replaced
with 25
white chairs and single rose, in remembrance of the victims.