How do you participate in a faith practice that hasn't had the best track record with racism? That's what our NPR play-cousin J.C. Howard gets into in this week's episode of Code Switch .
He's been reporting on Black Christians who, like him for a time, found their spiritual homes in white evangelical churches. "Being a Christian has always been one of the primary ways that I identify, but finding my place in Christianity has been a journey," J.C.
says. And he wasn't alone in making the shift to white evangelical spaces; in the past few decades , large Christian ministries have been reaching out to Black Christians to join their white-majority churches. J.
C. grew up Pentecostal, but going from a Black Pentecostal church to a white evangelical one isn't just a shift in worship style. He says that being a young Black man surrounded by white evangelicals made him "realize that this place might invite me in, but it wasn't built for me.
" As J.C. was thinking through his own spiritual journey, he read the story of another Black Christian, Dante Stewart , who started and ended in a very similar place.
On this episode, J.C. talks to Dante as a way to explore his own story.
James Willetts engineered this episode..
