Read the rest of our March coverage of multicultural churches: Korie Little Edwards looks at how far the movement has come and how far it has to go, and Michael J. Rhodes unpacks prejudice in the early Corinthian church.
Evelyn Perez tried to share her trauma. Five years ago, she met every week with a small group of women—whom she calls “great people”—at her large nondenominational church in the San Francisco Bay Area. She told the group of mostly white women, plus two other women of color, that her marriage had grown dangerous. The relationship was breaking down, and her husband was physically and emotionally abusive.