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Conservative pastors who urge their colleagues to avoid politics are hypocrites, says James Cone, a prominent theologian who has spent much of his career writing books condemning white churches for what he says is their indifference to social justice.

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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.

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?»

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?

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.

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.

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.

«A Lent Where #BlackLivesMatter: 10 Ideas for Black History Month and the White Church» by David Henson

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.

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.

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

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.

Your words about blended churches may be helpful for a white audience.

Despite the many failures of white - majority churches to take action in this area, the gospel has tremendous resources for seeking justice and peace across racial divisions.

But for minorities, your words reinforced the alienation many of us feel in a white - led world and in white - led churches.

This is for everyone who stayed home from church yesterday — for every mom of a special needs kid, every survivor of sexual assault, every black or brown body in a predominantly white community, every son or daughter of an immigrant, every defender of the marginalized who just couldn't bring yourself to stand and sing «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» alongside the people you feel sold you out this week, the Christians who supported Donald Trump.

Derek White from the Latymer Christian Church told Premier: «Our community hall is full of people who have brought clothes for people who have been made homeless.

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.

He spent years in a church that hates white people and only left to run for president.

For once, I'd like to read a CNN article about the White church, maybe even the Hispanic American church.

Ironically, while black theology theoretically relies heavily upon expressions of the people, such as freedom and sorrow songs and sermons, the more academic elites of black theology — those who have the luxury of tenure and endowed professorships in prestigious white seminaries and universities — seem to have little respect for the modern black church.

As president of a university that drew to itself all of New York's land - grant income besides a founder's ample endowment, White's dislike for the church colleges, intensified by their resentment of Cornell's wealth, drew him to appreciate the animosity Henry Tappan had experienced at Michigan:

Perhaps the dimly lit Presbyterian Gothic spaciousness of Fourth Church's sanctuary intimidated the hymnologists: an uptight bunch of white folks listened attentively but for the most part firmly resisted Gillespie's efforts to turn the place into a singing, clapping, toe - tapping, I'm - so - glad congregation.

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.

From my experience a black church service will go on for hours where most white churches will only have a service lasting for about 2 hours.

None of these demonstrators hid their faces like their white - supremacist American forebears, and many of them were in their churches Sunday and showed up for work on Monday morning.

The church is not just only for blacks and white but for all people.

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.

After all, he said «he repented», and now, he is just working in the community as politician, and he represents more power for the White Evangelical Church.

It's not nonsense, There is a big white Church down in the states that «non - Mormons» can not enter, for a religion that loosely follows the bible, that's not right.

Not surprising from a church... I'm still voting for Obama as a poor white boy.

On Saturday, I watched good friends carry a miniature white casket up the aisle of our parish church, to be laid before the altar for a funeral Mass..

«He was an early and forceful advocate for integrating the Church and getting black people and white people praying together like way before his time,» Glass explains.

Many non-Mormons falsely assume the large and often magnificent white LDS temples they see in their cities are where Latter - day Saints go for church.

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.

One need only look at President Jimmy Carter, who went so far as to teach Sunday school at his local Baptist church, to see how a sitting president can make room for faith, said Balmer of Dartmouth, who counts among his many books «God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.»

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.

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.

The effectiveness of the formation is evidenced by the fact that after three years some white male students are grateful to the institution for opening their eyes and leading them to the truth about racism and sexism in themselves and the church.

Our mothers and fathers, and the children when they got old enough, were involved on several fronts in order to make the social soil suitable for growth: the neighborhood, the white world that tried to put immovable stones in the soil, and the church that helped provide moral and spiritual (and often political) sustenance.

Ashimolowo says one of the main reasons for his disappointment with white church leaders was his perceived silence from them on the issue of same sex marriage when the law was changed in the UK.

For several centuries the gatherings of the dominant class in American society, white Anglo - Saxon churches have tended to assume that they themselves have no cultural particularity and therefore no reason to investigate their own ethos, tradition, and world view.

Bachmann, who received her J.D. degree from Oral Roberts University, spoke with CT about her new church affiliation, charismatic ties, and why she believes it's time for the country to place a mother in the White House.

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.

Politico: White House petitions hit Westboro church More than 260,000 people have signed a petition to the White House asking for it to label the notorious Westboro Baptist Church a hate church More than 260,000 people have signed a petition to the White House asking for it to label the notorious Westboro Baptist Church a hate Church a hate group.

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).