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July 31, 2009: Interracial Churches
We’re segregated in housing. The job market is segregated, and we end up going to churches with people who look like us. Experts say US churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in.
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July 31, 2009: Interview with Michael Emerson
Read more of Lucky Severson’s interview about interracial churches with Rice University sociology professor Michael Emerson.
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After ministering in inner-city Los Angeles for almost four decades, Father Peter Banks, an Irish Catholic priest, says "hope is to be able to sing in the middle of the darkness, and I can still sing in the middle of the darkness."
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June 12, 2009: Religion and Hate Crimes
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Sholom, an Orthodox synagogue in Washington, participated in an interfaith vigil at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and his congregation's Torah study was dedicated to the memory of the museum security officer who was shot to death.
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January 16, 2009: Martin Luther King’s Dream and Obama
In this historic week, connections between Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. are inevitable. Some see the inauguration as a testament to the sacrifice of Rev. King and a powerful expression of hope.
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Circuit Preacher David Brown Revisited
David Brown is a modern-day circuit rider, pastor of seven Baptist congregations in Mississippi and Louisiana. Every Sunday he visits at least three of them, driving hundreds of miles in his battered Chevrolet.
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September 14, 2007: Immigration Crackdown
With Congress unable to agree on immigration law reform, many local governments are trying to act on their own to discourage illegal immigrants from settling in their towns. Some say that's just protecting their communities, but others call it racism.
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August 18, 2006: Reverend Gardner C. Taylor
This coming week the nation once again honors the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. One of King's friends and preaching mentors was another prominent minister, the Reverend Gardner Taylor. For decades, Taylor has been included on virtually every list of the greatest preachers in America, and at 88 years old, he's still mentoring new generations of pastors. Last summer, Kim Lawton visited Taylor and filed this report.
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January 13, 2006: Martin Luther King Jr. as Pastor
The role of pastor may be one of the most overlooked sides of Martin Luther King Jr. But it was one of the most important aspects of who he was.
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January 13, 2006: Professor Lewis Baldwin
Read more of Kim Lawton's interview about Martin Luther King Jr. with Professor Lewis Baldwin.
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