Article overview and the diversity surprise
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Mike gives the gist of the article: four sermons each from the nine biggest churches, roughly eighteen hours of preaching at thirty minutes a sermon. The article's positive note — several pastors emphasized unity amid diversity, including Chris Hodges invoking Martin Luther King Jr. — prompts the hosts to argue this should never have surprised anyone: God created all ethnicities and Scripture never countenances racial separation. Mike jokes that nobody gets his aside about long sermons because he is the only one who goes to church.
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