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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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ORIGINAL: fucktoyprincess

In my personal experience, most of the protestant churches in the country are still pretty much "segregated" by race/ethnicity. This doesn't shock me so much. Sad, but true.

Interesting (imho) food for thought:

In his sermons, Martin Luther King Jr. was fond of quipping that "eleven o'clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour and Sunday school is still the most segregated school of the week."

Read more: http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Books/2001/01/The-Most-Segregated-Hour.aspx?p=1#ixzz22GBprywL

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ORIGINAL: fucktoyprincess

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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ORIGINAL: fucktoyprincess

In my personal experience, most of the protestant churches in the country are still pretty much "segregated" by race/ethnicity. This doesn't shock me so much. Sad, but true.

Interesting (imho) food for thought:

In his sermons, Martin Luther King Jr. was fond of quipping that "eleven o'clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour and Sunday school is still the most segregated school of the week."

Read more: http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Books/2001/01/The-Most-Segregated-Hour.aspx?p=1#ixzz22GBprywL

Thanks for the quote (which is great), but also the link to the books on the topic of segregated churches. So it's neither my imagination, nor my singular experience.

Another interesting point is that the Catholic church, while not the most progressive church in many ways, has always been a more integrated church. If one attends a Catholic mass in New York city, you are much more likely to be sitting with people of all sorts of racial/ethnic backgrounds than if you attend some of the Protestant churches. However, I have noticed some churches (and I don't know if they are Catholic) do hold different masses at different times that cater to particular ethnic groups (Hispanic Catholic vs Irish vs Polish, etc.) I don't know if this is because they conduct part of the mass in different languages. Anyway, it is interesting....and cautionary...