Obama inspires racial dialogue in churches (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sen. Barack Obama’s historic speech earlier this month in Philadelphia on race relations has elevated the discussion about the issue to the point where it has worked itself into the pews and pulpits of Bay Area churches.
Local ministers say they gave sermons about it on Easter, the holiest day of the year for Christians, and others plan to do so in the future.
These ministers – Pentecostals, Episcopalians and Baptists, Republican and Democrat, white, black and Asian – say Obama’s honesty offers a steppingstone to wade into the volatile waters of race relations.
They said his speech, which called for an honest dialogue about race, offered an opportunity to be open to others’ experiences without automatically triggering the shame, guilt and strife such conversations usually entail.
Obama inspires racial dialogue in churches (San Francisco Chronicle)
