AP: Multiethnic churches still rare in 21st century
There are currently 300,000 to 350,000 congregations in the U.S., according to Michael Emerson, a sociology professor and co-director of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research in Houston, Texas. Ninety-two percent are homogeneous, meaning at least 80 percent of the congregation comprises a single racial group.
When [Michael] Catt became pastor of Sherwood Baptist in 1989, he noticed his predominantly white congregation was a stark contrast to the small city of Albany, whose population is about 65 percent black and where few concessions were achieved from the city government after King visited there during the civil rights movement.
"You can't pastor a church in a community that's predominantly African-American and look out on a lily white crowd, because you're not being honest," Catt recently told The Associated Press.
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When [Michael] Catt became pastor of Sherwood Baptist in 1989, he noticed his predominantly white congregation was a stark contrast to the small city of Albany, whose population is about 65 percent black and where few concessions were achieved from the city government after King visited there during the civil rights movement.
"You can't pastor a church in a community that's predominantly African-American and look out on a lily white crowd, because you're not being honest," Catt recently told The Associated Press.
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