In the not-so distant past, you could count more African Americans at a Republican Party fundraiser than at a non-black church. Martin Luther King Jr. famously remarked in 1963 how the nation split along racial lines on the Sabbath. “11 o’clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week,” he said. “And the Sunday school is still the most segregated school.” But in an age where super-sized churches are edging out community churches, that trend is reversing. In recent years, large American churches have gradually grown more diverse.
