diversity

New Vision proposed a church merger of the two smaller congregations with Velasquez as senior pastor. The merger officially launches in January, 2023 as Community Church of LaVergne

At a school board meeting this week in Raleigh, North Carolina, youth pastor John Amanchukwu criticized members for failing to educate Black students while “wasting taxpayer dollars” on CRT and diversity programs.

I still see leadership meetings at churches where everyone in the room are white males, or others where everyone is a black male. That’s why we need to embrace the positive aspects of diversity – and the sooner the better.

“Asian-American” is too broad a term to encompass descendants in the U.S. of more than 20 or more Asian and Indian nations, the Pew Research Center found in its largest canvas of Asian Americans to date.

We like to start with the interests, views, and philosophies that would naturally unite us and then find ways to throw some diversity in there. But that kind of unity has limits.

California has more SBC churches than many might think. Those findings and much more can be discovered at the GCRM Ethnic Research Portal, unveiled to state convention leaders last week at their annual meeting.

DEIB isn’t a four-letter word. But it may just be the most important acronym we embrace to become a people, in Christ’s likeness, who are successful in inviting a changing world and increasingly diverse people who don’t yet know they belong to finally find a home in Jesus.

In a complaint filed July 2 in federal court, Kelvin Edwards, a former executive vice president of management efficiencies and diversity, alleges he was fired because Liberty's acting president, Jerry Prevo, does not value diversity.