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Article: Methodist groups talk of merger.
- Article from:
- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 15, 1995
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There are two Methodist churches in Princeton, New Jersey. Both have venerable congregations, old buildings and 150-year-old roots in the town. Yet the members don't know one another, and the pastors met only recently. One church is white, the other is black. There is no hostility between them and probably never was. But the legacy of racism that divided Methodists nationwide more than 200 years ago lives on at Princeton United Methodist Church, a handsome stone edifice across from Princeton University, and Mr. Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church, a paint-peeling brick building at the edge of the town's traditionally black neighborhood. Now, however, the division may ...