Sentences with phrase «white pastors»

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

For that matter, who cares what white pastors think.

Imagine every city having two leading white pastors, two leading black pastors, Hispanic pastors, making up a reconciliation force.

Most African - American pastors (80 percent) agree, as do a majority of white pastors (59 percent).

Platt is joined by a number of white pastors in recent days who have spoken openly about the church's need to address racism in wake of the 50th anniversary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, including John Piper and Matt Chandler.

As white pastor Greg Boyd has written, «The only way we can expand our horizon — and the only way we can begin to bridge the racial divide between whites and blacks in our country and in the church — is for white people to humbly acknowledge that our experience is a myopic, privileged experience and to listen and learn from the experiences of people who in many respects continue to live in quite a different world from our own.»

White pastors like me quote black thinkers such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in our sermons.

«We are convinced that these demonstrations are unwise and untimely,» wrote eight prominent white pastors in 1963, in response to King's de - segregation demonstrations in Birmingham, Al - abama.

Cone, however, said neither Niebuhr nor any other famous white pastor at the time spoke out against the most brutal manifestation of white racism in the 20th century America: lynching.

Clinton does the opposite: 5 percent of white pastors favor her, along with 18 percent of pastors of other ethnicities.

Cruz does better with white pastors (19 %) than with those of other ethnicities (5 %).

So before you share that MLK quote on Facebook today, ask yourself: If your pastor told you that integration was «unbiblical» and MLK was a dangerous, anti-Christian communist, (which is what plenty of white pastors in the South did), which side would you have chosen?

Meanwhile, more than half of African American pastors (53 %) strongly agree that their church is personally involved with racial reconciliation at the local level, while only one - third of white pastors (32 %) say the same.

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 and 7.

White pastors (46 %) are most likely to say their congregations are fearful of refugees than pastors of other ethnicities (33 %).

I currently go to a church where there is a white pastor and a mixed congregation, but the majority of members is white.

I went to a Church in Overland Park Kansas which was diverse with good music and a white Pastor who spoke well.

All the white pastors should join them in their fight!

African American pastors are less likely than white pastors to believe that the gospel mandates racial reconciliation, but more likely to be actively involved in reconciliation efforts, according to a new LifeWay Research survey of 1,000 Protestant senior pastors.

More than three - quarters of white pastors (77 %) strongly agree that racial reconciliation is a gospel mandate, while only two - thirds of African American pastors (64 %) say the same.

His experience mirrors Olofinjana's, but as a white pastor to a predominantly BAME congregation.