Craig Haney, an author of the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, is professor of social psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Haney went on to earn a law degree from Stanford and a doctorate in psychology. He has been a leading legal consultant on prison reform litigation. He teaches psychology and law and the […]

Robin Lovin is an ethicist at Southern Methodist University, the author of Christian Ethics: The Essential Guide (Abingdon Press, 2000) and a frequent commentator on war and peace issues.

Sociologist Michael Emerson and a team of researchers at Rice University conducted a national study on multiracial Protestant and Catholic denominations. They found that more than 9 in 10 U.S. churches remain segregated. They analyzed 20 multiracial congregations in the U.S. and identified seven models for how those ethnically diverse congregations came to be.

Research at Hartford Seminary found significant racial diversity among American megachurches. Thumma found that 35 percent of megachurches studied claimed to have at least 20 percent of their membership from a nonmajority ethnic group, and more than half were making specific efforts – such as diversifying their staffs or holding worship services in a language other than […]

Read a Feb. 28, 2001, story from Christian Century outlining the findings of the Congregations Project at Rice University and other research studies on multiracial congregations. The article is posted by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research.

Read a story from The Associated Press, published Feb. 24, 2007, in the Deseret News, about the efforts megachurches are making to become multiracial and multiethnic congregations.

Read a Sept. 27, 2010 Baylor Media Communications article that finds that nine in ten congregations have a single racial group that accounts for more than 80 percent of their membership.

Read a May 3, 2013 AllChristianNews.com article about the lack of racial diversity in U.S. churches, but the raised awareness about the issue around the nation.

Read a 2010 essay by Gerardo Marti about the focus on integration of African Americans into houses of worship for cultural diversity.