Racially diverse churches are often led by white pastors who recruit in minority communities, usually by hiring nonwhite assistant pastors.
We also need more Asian festivals, more pow-wows, more African American poetry, more old time fiddle music, hip hop and banghra, more mosques and temples and gurdwaras, more Humanist societies, more diverse churches of every stripe.
The category 'other' included a multitude of small and diverse churches which were difficult to classify in one well-defined group.
Other Asian-American Christians, seeking a more diverse church experience, have settled into or even helped start, multiethnic churches, including some of the largest congregations in the city.
She then took over the WCC's east Europe desk in Geneva, keeping diverse church traditions working together both before, and after, the fall of communism.
"It was especially good to recognise the signatures of synod colleagues from many of the different traditions that make up our richly diverse church," he said.
While celebrating Mass at Nationals Park before nearly 50,000 people, his first major encounter with the country's diverse church, he brought it up in his homily.
What is at stake here, she said, is the Anglican system, under the settlement worked out in the reign of Elizabeth I, of maintaining a theologically diverse church through adherence to its laws.
Such churches might also provide some cultural grounding for Mr. Obama's daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. Mr. Obama's wife, Michelle, who attended a black church growing up, wants her girls to maintain a sense of normalcy, and membership in a racially and economically diverse church might help provide that.
He raised the issue first with reporters on his trip from Rome on Tuesday, and did so for a third time Thursday morning in a huge open Mass at Nationals Park before nearly 50,000 people, his first major encounter with the country's diverse church.
People who know the president believe he is likely to choose a predominantly black or diverse church because he has often credited the African-American religious tradition and its emphasis on community activism with inspiring him to embrace his Christian faith.
