Segregation

This is a little tidbit from the US... Did you know that the most segregated "hour" in America is on Sunday morning when people are in Church? Blacks, whites, hispanics do not mix in their Sunday worship, on the whole. That's not to say that there is racism happening just that people like to hang out with people who look like them...

There's something in there that just strikes me as being a bit off... I get that people like to hang out with people who look like them... but... why in Church? In work, people mix together... they have to... But in church, where we can choose where we go... we like to stay separate. Isn't there something in there that just smacks a bit of... something... I am reminded of St. Paul and his letter to the Galatians, which I will paraphrase as... "in Christ there is no white or black, there is no hispanic or chinese, there is no filipino or indian... all are one in Christ"... And yet in churches in America, the very opposite is being seen.

What would it be like if we did mix in our worshipping communities... if all worshipping communities could draw on the wisdom of hispanic and black and white and chinese and filipino and indian? What might that look like?

Here in Canada, we see it more with segregated language communities. There's the Polish church and the Serbian and the Hungarian and the Korean and the German and the French and the... We're all white... and yet we still separate ourselves from each other...