Curtiss DeYoung, professor of reconciliation studies and special assistant to the president for reconciliation and community partnerships at Bethel University, was featured in a CNN article "Why many Americans prefer their Sundays segregated." The article quotes DeYoung extensively. DeYoung, who once pastored an interracial congregation in Minneapolis, is the author and co-author of several books including Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice, United by Faith, and Beyond Rhetoric.

"Only about 5 percent of the nation's churches are racially integrated, and half of them are in the process of becoming all-black or all-white," DeYoung told CNN. DeYoung "defines an interracial church as one in which at least 20 percent its membership belongs to a racial group other than that church's largest racial group."

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