Arguing Quote by Michael Emerson

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby

Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in…

— Michael Emerson

I thought the evangelical church was living out true unity in Christ without regard for race. That has certainly been my experience in every…

— John MacArthur

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

— Oprah Winfrey

That's a big fear, right, and when I talk with black pastors, the same thing: If we try to have this move towards interracial…

— Michael Emerson

We're going to see more, and we are seeing more, and I'll tell you exactly why. Not because white and black are more likely…

— Michael Emerson

If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major…

— Cornel West

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm…

— Harry Lennix

What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing to give…

— Michael Emerson

The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision…

— Allen West

What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or…

— Michael Emerson

When we say the Black church, we have never meant anything racially exclusive by that. The Black church is the antislavery church. It is…

— Raphael Warnock