Dr. Lauren Turek
Appearances
Nobody Should Believe Me
S05 Ep08: They Saw You
She's at this live life church, which is also a non-denominational church, also evangelical, really focused on a born again experience, focused on evangelism, but it's a black evangelical church.
Nobody Should Believe Me
S05 Ep08: They Saw You
They're really focused on this vision of diversity, right? You see the pictures of a diverse group of leadership in the church and diverse worshipers. The live life church had much less information about their statement of belief. They had very kind of broad messaging. Again, I think meant to be really inclusive to invite people in. Their vision for their faith was not as spelled out in terms of
Nobody Should Believe Me
S05 Ep08: They Saw You
Here are the creeds we believe in, or here are the sort of specific scriptures that are animating our worship. They have a lot on their sort of site about the work that they're doing in the community, that sort of thing. So they seem to be more in line with what we might think of as a social action focused church.
Nobody Should Believe Me
S05 Ep08: They Saw You
Not necessarily, it wouldn't necessarily mean that she didn't feel welcome there politically. Although I just, I find it very interesting that she moved from what's very clearly a very, very conservative church to one that looks quite different.
Nobody Should Believe Me
S05 Ep08: They Saw You
But it was interesting because I watched her doing her service at that church, and she was still using a lot of the same language from earlier. So I don't know how much she has changed in that different environment because she's still talking about, like, partnering with God. She's asking for donations. She's talking about what she's doing for the kids and about how God has –
Nobody Should Believe Me
S05 Ep08: They Saw You
kind of infused her journey and all of that, which, again, not that it wouldn't, like, it certainly resonates, but it's not clear to me that she has broken from that model.