Sentences with phrase «white churches do»

How do you think we walk the line so predominantly white churches don't just go into a community and say, «We're coming to help,» but really integrate and come under leaders of color?

Black churches exist because lacks were forced away from the white churches doing slavery and segregation but that is a prime example of how religion has been used to control the masses.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

As the article said, it's about a block away from the White House — it only serves a few blocks; most people don't drive into town to go to church on Sunday.

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.

Some churches do welcome short people, fat people, black people, white people, liars, adulterers, murderers.

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.

White supremacy ruled over our nation and churches did nothing to stop the vast injustice.

What do you see as the major problems the Church needs to address regarding the division between African - American and white Christians?

Most of us do not want our government to be run according to the principles and beliefs of the Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, White Supremacists (some of whom claim to be churches), etc..

It seems that, in the midst of black Christian outcry in 2013, the majority of white Christians pressed the snooze button on racial justice, sleepwalking into their churches where an individualistic gospel that doesn't call them to say or do anything about racial injustice is preached, where white culture, rather than Christ, reigns supreme, and where the problems and perspectives of black people are ignored.

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.

We don't have to abandon Jesus to abandon the unholy marriage between Donald Trump and the white American Church.

Blacks don't come to «white» churches because most blacks are raging racists.

It should have read «I told a Muslim in order to follow Christ she doesn't need to become a white washed tomb» since it's evident you think that's what church goers are.

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.

«But a lot of white Americans don't hear that because they never sat in those churches and heard it over and over again.

At my church most of the members are white but we do have many people that go that are not white.

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

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

Last week, Kent Shaffer at Church Relevance released his list of Top 200 Church Blogs, igniting multiple conversations across the faith - based blogosphere about why 93 percent of the bloggers listed were white men, and why prominent, high - traffic bloggers like Ann Voskamp and Jen Hatmaker somehow didn't make the cut.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

I've sat through church services or conferences or workplaces or public arenas where the only women who are visible are the ones who are extremely thin, who are white, who are blonde, who are American, who are fashionably dressed and professionally done - up, who are able - bodied, who are bright without being intimidating, who are pretty without being sexy, who are unthreatening to our status quo of appropriate, who are ticking every box for what our culture tells us is acceptable about womanhood.

I can not wait for Obama to be kicked out from the white house... we deserve a strict religious president who does not support seperation of church and state.

It is notoriously difficult for white do - gooder churches of any stripe to be more multicultural (Old St. Pat's has struggled with this problem mightily).

The story is not told about why it was that plantation churches were set up in the first because white Christians did not want to worship with enslaved people.

«In the days and weeks following the tragedy in Charleston, many in the white evangelical community wanted to do something to fight the plague of racism in our country and churches,» stated Birdsall.

Not only are Jesus and Santa white, but they both live in Texas, are republicans, own a stockpile of guns, attend baptist church and hate anyone who doesn't believe as they do.

I wonder if that «fiirst time offender» mentality will sweep the GOP like it does the Catholic church because most first time offenders, and repeat offenders are WHITE!

My favorite scam is anti-abortion... When Repubs / Church had the White House, Both Houses of Congress and the Supreme Court they could have ended abortion but they didn't even try.

I'm black and my wife is white... we were denied marriage (maybe discouraged is a better choice of words) in a rural all white church because the pastor basically knew his congregation would have a problem with it, though he did not.

We typically don't say white or Caucasian churches so why do we say black or Afro - American churches?

So instead of the Great White Hope from the North showing up with a toolkit, they seek to partner with and support the church that is already there, doing the work of the Gospel for their own communities.

If you don't conform to a suburban, white, middle class lifestyle, you aren't going to fit in as easily in the evangelical church.

Surveys show that African - Americans attend church in higher numbers than white Americans do, and Democratic politicians have long made a habit of speaking from black pulpits in the leadup to Election Day.

When Richard Allen and other black Christians separated from white churches in the late 18th and early 19th centuries they did not regard their action as having theological meaning.

But even a predominantly white church can do much to model inclusivity and diversity.

racial segregation was so widely accepted in the churches and societies throughout the world that few white theologians, did see the injustice, did not regard the issue important enough to even write or talk about it.

Churches don't announce their presence with sprawling campuses and freshly painted white steeples.

Rev McHaffie doesn't wear a robe to his church, but rather wears a sports jacket and a white clerical collar so he can be identified as the vicar.

When a believing friend wrote that the Bible did not apply to the character and conduct of a President, that is when I realized how deeply the White Evangelical Church of the United States had committed itself to its marriage to All Things Republican.

Oh the joy if only we could go back to the early 1800's where a good honest white land owner could head to town any Saturday and buy a whole new pack of n e gros to take home so he could help with the building of his new Church... And don't forget ladies, you are meant to be seen, not heard, and don't you dare be so immoral as to let your ankle show... Now get back in the kitchen!!

The founders of Black Lives Matter refute these 11 stated misconceptions about their movement; they ignore Black on Black crime, they're leaderless, they have no agenda, they're a one - issue movement (Police brutality), they don't respect their elders, they reject the Black Church, they don't care about Queer / Trans lives, they hate White people, they hate Police officers, politically speaking their focus should be the vote, and they're not actually a movement.

Because many black denominations do not ordain women, Delores Carpenter of Howard observed, black women who want to be ordained have moved into mainly white churches, especially Presbyterian and United Methodist.

Except that the Catholic Church doesn't have a «white horse» prophecy, nor did they ever have an oath of vengeance against the United States as part of their catechism.

The black church is defined not by any or all of the traditionally accepted creeds but by the creed of liberation: the creed that one man does not have the right to oppress another, be the other black or white, baptized by immersion or by sprinkling, fashionably attired or running naked in the jungle.

We've thought, if we move, one thing we would like to do is to be white members of a black church since we have always seen it the other way.»

There is barely a Catholic Church today where one does not encounter the image of Christ with its white and red rays issuing from his heart: - the white cleansing water of baptism and confession and the red nourishing blood of the Eucharist.

Once there were gatherings in church basements around the country of blacks and whites, all repenting together of the hatred they possessed and violence they could do to the white people who would attack them during street demonstrations.