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The Divide Between Black and White Christians Is Getting Wider — Here’s the Data

The Divide Between Black and White Christians Is Getting Wider — Here’s the Data

Wednesday, June 17, 2026
For centuries, the assumption was that American Christians, for the most part, shared a similar worldview. On paper, the beliefs of a white megachurch-attending Christian in suburban Dallas and a Black Baptist congregant in South Carolina were the same. In practice, the two groups are no longer reading from the same script — and the…