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They have a "non-negotiable commitment to Africa". I understand that people with simplistic views can misunderstand what that means, but there has to be a really effective way to explain it. For example, I've looked at their website, clicked on all the options, and from what I can tell, it simply means that they contribute to aid for Africa and they teach African heritage classes to the youth in the community. Let me add, they don't teach the African heritage classes to all the youth in the church, they're like optional after school type classes. I find his church to be fairly spiritually uplifting, regardless of denomination or the ethnic tone.
Disclaimer: I'm an agnostic, born to Jewish parents, who likes what Jesus had to say...
Montesquieu and Locke are rolling in their graves right now...
by Mannabass on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 10:10:55 AM PDT
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We also have churches that still hold some services in German. When they came to America, they often found that the Lutheran church with its top-down hierarchy would not allow them any German liturgy. Thus the German Congregational Church was born when the Congregational Church's more inclusive congregational polity allowed them to continue their own ways of worship. (The Congregational Church was one of the denominations that merged to become the UCC in the 1950s, some of which were German Reformed, that is Germans who were already Calvinists.)
I really don't see Trinity's African focus as being all that different. It's a predominantly African-American church! I actually rather honor their commitment to Africa.
"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." --MLK
by Progressive Witness on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 10:59:57 AM PDT
by Mannabass on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 01:19:05 PM PDT
wide narrow
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