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For those with mixed families, Israel-Hamas war complicates already difficult terrain
By Tara Abhasakun — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — Since Oct. 7, writers who have both Palestinian and Jewish relatives are navigating polarizing arguments among family and friends as well as reexamining their own identities.
Multiracial churches growing, but challenging for clergy of color
By Adelle M. Banks — January 20, 2020
KELLER, Texas (RNS) — 'Pain is a part of the growth,' said the black pastor of a multiethnic Southern Baptist church in Utah.
Multiracial churches increase as blacks, whites learn to worship together
By Adelle M. Banks — June 29, 2018
(RNS) — As a new study shows that multiracial churches are on the rise, leaders of intercultural congregations say it takes perseverance to maintain diversity in their pulpits and their pews.
Assemblies of God turns 100, and looks to a multiethnic future
By Adelle M. Banks — August 6, 2014
(RNS) The U.S. denomination alone is a United Nations of some 3.1 million faithful -- with a membership that is 41 percent nonwhite, up from 31 percent a decade ago.
Black Southern Baptists try to keep expectations in check for first black SBC president
By Adelle M. Banks — June 13, 2012
RANDALLSTOWN, Md. (RNS) As the Southern Baptist Convention is poised to elect its first black president, the mostly African-American flock at Colonial Baptist Church is equal parts excited and astonished. "The denomination has come from 180 degrees,'' said Vernon T. Gaskins, 83. "I am quite shocked to see it but I’m glad to see it.'' By Adelle M. Banks.
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