User talk:68.110.64.170

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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago. Your edits appeared to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Grsztalk 05:34, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edits

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[edit] "Unashamedly Black"

You seem to misunderstand the significance of Trinity UCC's self-description as "unashamedly Black". As Jeremiah Wright said at the National Press Club yesterday:

We have members of other races in our church. We have Hispanics. We have Caribbean. We have South Americans. We have whites. The conference minister -- please understand the United Church of Christ is a predominantly white demonstration. Again, some of you do not know United Church of Christ, just found out about liberation theology, just found out about United Church of Christ, the conference minister, Dr. Jane Fisler Hoffman, a white woman, and her husband, not only are members of the congregation, but on her last Sunday before taking the assignment as the interim conference minister of California, Southern California Conference of the United Church of Christ, a white woman stood in our pulpit and said, "I am unashamedly African."

Trinity is unashamedly black in the same sense that many Catholic churches with strong ethnic ties are unashamedly Polish or unashamedly Irish or unashamedly Hispanic. That doesn't mean that they exclude people of other ethnicities — just that their worship, practice and understanding of Christianity is rooted in a particular cultural tradition. I attend an Episcopal church which is rooted in the traditions of Anglican Christianity, and our membership is primarily (but not exclusively) white. That doesn't mean that people of different races and ethnicities are excluded. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 19:53, 29 April 2008 (UTC)