Sentence examples for white denomination from inspiring English sources

Recently, she said, the historically white denomination has tried to grow by diversifying its membership.

The Tabernacle has had trouble integrating its eight-member pastoral staff, a legacy of the Assemblies of God's history as a white denomination.

It is a congregation of the United Church of Christ, a mostly white denomination known for experimentation within the bounds of traditional Protestant theology.

But Obama was a member of Trinity United Church of Christ UCCC) in Chicago, an anomaly in the UCC for being a predominantly African-American church in a mostly white denomination.

Trinity has 8,500 members today, making it the largest American congregation in the United Church of Christ, a mostly white denomination known for the independence of its congregations and its willingness to experiment with traditional Protestant theology.

The Wright controversy is a natural topic for those in the United Church of Christ, a predominantly white denomination that includes Mr. Obama's and Mr. Wright's church, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago (the largest church in the denomination).

To all brothers and sisters in predominantly white denominations you do not have to work to be accepted -- be who you are!

Later, we worked together on Jonathan's Wake, an effort to raise the consciousness of the major white denominations on race and reparations.

Had we started with the idea that all people, regardless  of color or economic class, were equally the children of God, we wouldn't have to have white denominations and black denominations.

"We were a segregated, virtually all-white denomination as late as the 1960s," said Richard Land, president of the convention's policy arm, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

The Southern Baptist Convention, after all, split off from the Northern Baptist churches before the Civil War on the very material issue of slavery: the all-white denomination opposed church interference with it.