How Multiethnic Churches Improve Race Relations

Check out these insights from “What Multicultural Congregations Teach About Improving Race Relations,” a resource from Baylor University’s online master’s in social work program. Here’s an excerpt— A movement is growing among Christian churches to become places of racial reconciliation and friendship between people of different racial and ethnic identities. But beyond awkwardness, racism and prejudice continue …

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Fostering multiethnic churches easier said than done, pastors say

Fostering multiethnic churches easier said than done, pastors say: Congregations must make racial diversity a core value that guides hiring decisions, worship planning and every other facet of church life, Baptist ministers say. by Jeff Brumley (Baptist News Global — January 29, 2015) The Southern Baptist Convention can cure the nation’s racial tensions if its churches …

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