New Religious Movement?

[Ellen Brown]

I am told that there is a very progressive Church Movement that seems to be spreading through Australia, the UK, and America. I've attended two of them in Portland just out of curiosity. They seem completely uninterested in the issues of Race, or Diversity that would cause a ruction in most conventional Churches, and I say it is about time.

Both Churches I attended had substantial numbers of Hispanic, Black, Asian and other races. I can't say about LGBT folk because I wouldn't know unless someone revealed it.

I imagine Christian conservatives are quite disturbed, and I submit that if they had been doing the will of God, this would not be happening.

 

[Jumi]

Northern Europe is pretty much the same. Why would they care for race? It seemed weird to me, even back when Christianity here was way more tied to nationalism. Today they are quite pro-tolerance. In my country these was a transgender (male-to-female, born in 1954) priest. Though she gave up after two years after coming out, because she was in a conservative rural parish. There are many female priests also. Including the previous bishop here.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

I am told that there is a very progressive Church Movement that seems to be spreading through Australia, the UK, and America. I've attended two of them in Portland just out of curiosity. They seem completely uninterested in the issues of Race, or Diversity that would cause a ruction in most conventional Churches, and I say it is about time.

Both Churches I attended had substantial numbers of Hispanic, Black, Asian and other races. I can't say about LGBT folk because I wouldn't know unless someone revealed it.

I imagine Christian conservatives are quite disturbed, and I submit that if they had been doing the will of God, this would not be happening.

I'm all for believing the human race is the only race. But don't trust for a moment that it is a good church simply because it has this right. The People's Temple with Jim Jones was multi-racial and progressive, and they all ended up literally drinking the Kool-Aid.

I think that you'll find most churches are racially progressive, and have congregations that reflect whatever the diversity of their neighborhood is.

I hope that you are able to find a church that loves your uniqueness.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I'm all for believing the human race is the only race. But don't trust for a moment that it is a good church simply because it has this right. The People's Temple with Jim Jones was multi-racial and progressive, and they all ended up literally drinking the Kool-Aid.

*Flavor-Aid

And American churches are still pretty racially segregated: Racial segregation of churches in the United States - Wikipedia

 

[Ellen Brown]

*Flavor-Aid

And American churches are still pretty racially segregated: Racial segregation of churches in the United States - Wikipedia

Not the two I attended Sunday. In both, Whites were around 10%. Any race you can think of was there. As to the ones in the big stone edifices? ...