A church in suburban Chicago has told parishioners it will abstain from performing any music that is associated with White people during the season of Lent. "In our worship services throughout Lent, ...

When people in church raise their voices in song, it's like praying, twice. That thinking has been traced to St. Augustine and is the basis of a new program for Lent at Church of Peace United Church ...

A church in suburban Chicago said it is “fasting from whiteness” during Lent, the 40-day period preceding Easter — by abstaining from performing hymns composed or written by white musicians. First ...

Chicago church bans some hymns while 'fasting from Whiteness' for Lent Rev. Eugene Rivers III, director of the Seymour Institute, calls out 'misguided White liberals' for their move to 'racialize' ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — News of First United Church of Oak Park's plan to 'fast from whiteness' for Lent drew so many responses, many of them critical, that its website crashed. CHICAGO (RNS) — To say that ...