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'Unemploying our own members': Black megachurch cuts ties with Kennedy Center after Trump takeover

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A historically black megachurch in Virginia has cut ties with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after President Donald Trump became the facility's new chair.

Alfred Street Baptist Church of Alexandria said in a statement Sunday it will no longer hold its annual Christmas performance at the Kennedy Center.

The church claimed that the center's new leadership stood against Alfred Street's "unwavering commission to proclaim and practice the transformative and redemptive love of Jesus, to pursue justice, to promote equality, to embrace the gift of diversity, and to care for all of creation."

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Not surprising. Black Protestant churches have very different perspectives on the culture war issues, and Christian nationalism, than white evangelicals, and their priorities and pain points don't necessarily align.
 
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