The election of the elders of an evangelical church is usually an uncontroversial, even unifying event. But this summer, at an influential megachurch in Northern Virginia, something went badly wrong. A trio of elders didn’t receive 75 percent of the vote, the threshold necessary to be installed
Social polarization has caught up with the white evangelical movement.
I wonder how Black evangelical traditions are faring? I feel like too often Black churches more socially conservative than Baptists are left out of these discussions, probably due to population size.
I know race mediates Black evangelicals attraction to the Republican or other right wing movements (because it does for Black Conservatives too; there's also social pressure due to the poor scorecard of Republicans, especially at the local and state level, on race or other issues that the Black community at large tends to care about thus identifying as a Republican as a Black person often comes with social stigma) #thanksracism but I should do more reading in this.