"The most segregated hour of Christian America is 11 o’clock on Sunday morning.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. offered this tragic insight decades ago.

Not much has changed since.

How did we get here? Why do we stay here?

Flat-out racism is a cause, to be sure.

But racism is not the only cause.

This guest post by Backstory Preaching mentor, the Rev. Dr. Melinda Quivik, raises questions helpful to the conversation about how we address our segregated Sundays.