Religion

I want to spend a few minutes discussing the Black Church. The Black Church is something that I’ve taken for granted. Until recently, I haven’t really studied the matter. The Black Church was just something that existed. As most of you know, I grew up in Dallas. Almost every Sunday, our family worshiped in a Black Church. I never thought much about it. Like nearly everything in this country, race and racism are at the core. After the American Revolutionary War, Baptists and Methodists spread across the South. Ministers evangelized and established churches. The initial idea was to create unified churches,