Savannah pastors seek innovative ways to foster multicultural worship and ministry
Rachel Cleveland, For Beacon Magazine
Published
8:03 am UTC Feb. 10, 2021
Beacon Magazine and the Savannah Morning News explore the effects of race and class discrimination in Savannah institutions and offer solutions to overcoming the obstacles that divide us.
When asked about the moral obligation of integration, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously responded, “I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation…that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours…in Christian America.”
More than half a century later, Christian America strives in fits and starts to fulfill Dr. King’s call to racial integration within the church; to bring people of many races and cultures together within one congregation.