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A Quiet Exodus in White Evangelical Churches

Charmane Pruitt thunbs through her mother's Bible after attending a service at Mount Olive Baptist, a church she was trying out after having left Gateway, a megachurch, in Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 28, 2018. Many African-Americans who had integrated mostly white Christian churches in the past couple of decades were disappointed with those congregations' or pastors' responses to racial issues in the wake of shootings like that of Trayvon Martin, the events of Ferguson and the election of Donald Trump. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)