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Jacqui Lewis

Jacqui Lewis is senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church, a multicultural, Reformed Church in America congregation in New York City. Lewis has written that multiracial and multicultural congregations “help us to rehearse the Reign of God here on earth.”

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Richard Alba

Richard Alba was a professor of race and ethnicity in the sociology department of the State University of New York at Albany. He is co-author of Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration and can speak about the impact of immigration and ethnic identity on religious life.

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Hunting Ridge Presbyterian Church

The Rev. Anita Hendrix is pastor of Hunting Ridge Presbyterian Church, a multiethnic congregation in Baltimore affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Her congregation is about 60 percent Anglo, with others of African-American, Caribbean, Asian and African heritage.

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Islamic Society of Central Florida

Imam Muhammad Musri leads the Islamic Society of Central Florida, a mosque in Orlando whose members come from more than 30 countries. Located in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood, the mosque is seeing an increasing number of Latino converts and now offers a Spanish-language program for women.

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Oakhurst Presbyterian Church

Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Ga., a congregation that’s committed to diversity and whose membership is about half white and half black. Contact pastors Nibs (Gibson) Stroupe and Caroline Leach. Together they wrote O Lord, Hold Our Hands: How a Church Thrives in a Multicultural World, and Stroupe is a co-author of Where Once We Feared Enemies: Inclusive Membership, […]

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Temple Israel of Greater Miami

Temple Israel of Greater Miami is a progressive, inner-city congregation and the oldest Reformed congregation in Miami – states on its website: “You want diversity? Some of our services are a tropical tzimmes of languages: English, Spanish, and Hebrew, with a little Yiddish, Ladino and Aramaic thrown in for good measure.” The congregation also is […]

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