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Article: METHODIST MERGER PLAN EMBRACES BLACKS BISHOP SAYS IT'S TIME TO CONFESS SINS OF PAST.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- April 24, 1996
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Byline: Associated Press
DENVER -- U.S. churches are shaking up their black-or-white Sunday morning world.
United Methodists on Tuesday night approved plans to seek a merger with the three largest black Methodist churches.
''The time is right now for us to openly confess to sins of our past and to realize these brothers and sisters belong in one church,'' United Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert said at the General Conference of the 8.6 million-member denomination.
The move by the nation's second largest Protestant church follows nearly two years of attempts at racial reconciliation by white Christians, including an apology from the ...