Word: congregationers
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At Harvard and at colleges nationwide, one of the most hotly debated campus issues has been the tendency of minority students to socialize and live together. Both students and college officials often refer to this association as "segregation" or "self-segregation." But this is an appalling definition--minorities who enjoy...
Oakhurst, which has a congregation that is roughly half black and half white, is what diversity is all about: people of different races coming together not in the mournful, candle-bearing aftermath of some urban riot or the artificially arranged precursor to some political photo op, but because they want...
That's when Stroupe took over the church. He was 36 years old then, a youthful, activist minister who had campaigned hard for prison reform in Norfolk, Virginia, and elsewhere. But the decrepit physical state of the 62-year-old church and the demoralized yet intransigent spiritual condition of some...
Stroupe began to make changes. He added something to the worship service that he calls "a sharing of concerns and joys" where congregation members stand up and tell anecdotes from their lives. "It's a way to get some of the spontaneity of the black church into our service," he...
The changes are working. The congregation has grown and now boasts almost 200 members, many from other neighborhoods. Betsy Cameron and her husband Mark Gray, both in their 30s, heard about Oakhurst while they were teaching English in Malawi in southeast Africa. "To [white] people who have stepped outside their...