"...one of the most segregated hours...in America"

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s observation about 11:00am on Sunday mornings, when Christians of different colors worship the same God revealed in Jesus Christ, is about as true today as the day he first made this observation. It was on April 17, 1960, Easter Sunday, on NBC's Meet the Press that King made this famous pronouncement.*



The reasons for this persistent segregation are many: the momentum of history, the locations where worship happens (often influenced, even mandated, by race), differences in comfort zones, and, yes, sometimes, racism.

But I pray that one day Christian congregations will mirror heaven and the words of a song many of us learned as children in Sunday School:

Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow, black and white,
All are precious in His sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world!

Even now, Lord Jesus, "Thy kingdom com, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Amen

*The day was also the birthdate of one of my kid sisters.