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Mar 6 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
The percentage of multiracial churches has increased over the last 20 years from 6 percent to 19 percent. That could be a sign of greater interracial understanding among Christians. BUT…
…that growth is because Black people and people of color are going to predominantly white churches. White people aren’t going to churches where PoC are the majority. The shift has been almost entirely one-way.
This one-way reshuffling may preserve majority Black and PoC churches as spaces of affirmation for those groups, but it may also speak to the (un)willingness of white Christians to follow Black and other PoC leadership.
In addition, there has been a recent DECLINE in Black people attending multiracial churches. From 27 percent in 2012 to 21 percent in 2019. Political and social climate and continued racial conflict may all have an impact.
Read more in my article for @BlkPerspectives

“Crossing the Ecclesiastical Color Line

#History #BlackHistory #Church
aaihs.org/crossing-the-e…
For even more read my article on the status of the evangelical racial reconciliation movement from 2012 to 2022.
#TrayvonMartin #BlackLivesMatter #Justice
jemartisby.substack.com/p/trayvon-mart…

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Feb 16
Phew! When you end up in @Newsweek because a group of conservative Christian parents and college students allege that you’re a stark, raving Critical Race Theory apologist! 😱 Fam, I’m a historian, and history has America’s many racist receipts.
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I was invited to speak and preach at this college a month before the 2020 presidential election. 2020!!! This controversy has been going on for almost a year and a half!
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Notice the word “escape.” Too often Christian schools are set up as enclaves with high walls barring their students from “the world.” Attempts to engage other ideas are seen as attacking the Christian foundations of the school.
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Feb 15
In my first-ever piece for @BlkPerspectives (🙌🏾), I talk about the continuing importance of the Black Church juxtaposed with the ways Black Christians have always moved across the ecclesiastical color line.
aaihs.org/crossing-the-e…
According to @pewresearch overall, 60 percent of Black churchgoers attend Black churches…Thirteen percent attend a church that is predominantly white/other, and 25 percent attend a multiracial church where “no single race makes up a majority of attendees”
aaihs.org/crossing-the-e…
The same @pewresearch study also shows church attendance among younger Black Christians…
Millennials
53% - Black church
18% - white/other church
27% - multiracial church

Gen Z
53% - Black church
25% - white/other church
19% - multiracial church
aaihs.org/crossing-the-e…
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Jan 6
The swirl of thoughts and emotions surrounding the one year anniversary of an #insurrection have been difficult for me to sort out. I'm sure many of you feel the same. So here are some related but distinct items I'm reflecting on concerning the assault on our democracy...🧵
White evangelicals, who are all wrapped up in this thing because of Christian Nationalism (more on that in a moment) spend tons of time arguing about whether women can stand in the pulpit, but hardly a word from conservatives on the crumbling of the democratic process.
I wrote in my first book about the complicity of segments of U.S. Christianity in racism. If I were to write a history of the past 5-7 years, it would be about the conspiracy of many Christians to undermine democracy and promote authoritarianism with the veneer of religiosity
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Nov 30, 2021
As hard as fundraising is, in general, it’s even harder for Black-led nonprofits. Here’s why… 🧵
#GivingTuesday
jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-its-so-h…
Racism grew and endured in the United States because it was attached to a financial system—race-based chattel slavery…For centuries, enslaved Black people literally built the wealth of this nation and they were compensated not a bit.
jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-its-so-h…
Even after emancipation, Black people found themselves released from the physical chains of slavery only to be enslaved to generational poverty.

Through replacement systems such as convict leasing and sharecropping, the economic exploitation of Black people’s labor continued.
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Nov 29, 2021
The “scandal of the evangelical mind” continues by denigrating the work of historians and sociologists for not being sufficiently “biblical.” We are called “false teachers.” But here’s a thread of my so-called false teachings. Decide for yourself. Image
From the intro to the “Color of Compromise” I explain why this tragic history of racism must be revealed—not to harm but to heal.
bookshop.org/books/the-colo… Image
What must the church do in light of its racist past? Discern between a complicit Christianity that compromises with racism and a courageous. Christianity that confronts it. Image
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Nov 21, 2021
I don’t think *most* of the Christians who try to discredit my work and that of other scholars are mean-spirited. I do think they’re so used to a narrow interpretation of the faith that they believe theirs is the self-evident and best way to think about and do Christianity.
When people come along who say A) your theological reasoning is just as socio-culturally influenced as you say mine is and B) your loved practice does not match your professed theological belief…they get defensive and default to what’s most familiar to them.
What’s most familiar to many Christians is a highly cognitive form of faith that explicitly or tacitly thinks that right belief necessarily, or at least mostly, leads to right practice. Pro-slavery and pro-segregationist church folk obviously show this fallacy.
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