re: Does your priest/pastor talk politics from the alter/pulpit?

No, but we left a church before our present church because the pastor said we do violence against brothers if we judge them for rioting (Summer 2020). We didn't do it lightly because it had been very orthodox up to that point.

Present church doesn't explicitly discuss politics, but the pastor does openly discuss the sin of abortion, how certain worldviews (CRT) promote ideas incompatible with Christianity, etc. when it's part of the context. He doesn't plan sermons around abortion, gay marriage, etc. or talk about political candidates.

TEC and UMC are heavily politically involved. While they may be quieter at times from the pulpit (in the south), that's not the case in a lot of places and certainly not the case from the national organizations, where they're probably far more overtly political than SBC.

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Have you never heard of black churches?

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Became real good friends with a black guy from Alabama who was Jehovah Witness but had grown up in a Baptist Church. I had already known that black churches basically told their ppl how to vote but I was shocked at the other things he told me that went on in them churches.