It's black, it's white: The most segregated hour in America
Another one of the articles in the Chicago Sun-Times series on evangelicalism talked about the racial divide in Chicago churches. Black Protestants in particular tend to think of evangelicalism as a whites-only phenomenon, a club filled with right-wing Republican bigots. Therefore, this group of Christians is very reluctant to call itself evangelical. One of the very few black pastors to call himself evangelical is Rev. James Meeks, a Baptist minister who runs a church on Chicago's South Side.... Sign in to see full entry.