Compare And Contrast Mason And Cogic

Racial equality was expressed by Mason and COGIC with a strong promise to stand behind those rules. Mason understood that the public statement was not purposefully embodiment as an interracial impulse and understood itself as making a political and moral statement against racism and segregation by directing a denominational structure that reflected the Oneness in Christ Jesus that was shared by all Christians; black and white. His contribution to the interracial impulse with them Pentecostalism an American process as it remains and understudied topic of American religious history. Mason is best remembered as the founder of the COGRC, which is considered one of the seven major historical black churches and according to some studies
He had become a successful entertainer in his younger days performing in the beer joints seven Louisiana and later Alton to the rest of the country. His singing placed him in Indianapolis in 1913 where he became seriously ill with tuberculosis, a catastrophic diagnosis in those days. While hospitalized one of the nurses attending him was a member of G. T. Haywood’s Pentecostal congregation. She introduced Lawson to Haywood and the former was impressed. Lawson was eventually converted to Pentecostalism and left Indianapolis to start churches in the Midwest and as far south as
There he pastored a church for a while in which time Lawson and Haywood’s friendship began to waiver. Some of the issues that developed between them concerned family, gender, and sexuality. The problem evolved to such a degree that Lawson left the Haywood organization and moved east to New York City. When he arrived he realized that the environment was exactly what he wanted and that his ministerial skills would blossom. He started a church and named it Refuge Church of Christ and then he helped found a new denomination called the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Lawson, like Haywood, wrote songs, he started a program on the radio and helped form a Bible school in North Carolina. Lawson lived in the northern part of Manhattan, near Columbia University in Harlem right in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance. Creativity was abundant, musicians were everywhere and there were also artists and writers; all the things that he loved and appreciated. One of the things that peaked his interest was the study of anthropology that was starting to take hold. Frank Boas, considered the father of anthropology, was a professor at Columbia. Anthropology was starting to lean towards a study of human cultures, their diversity, the neutralization of race in moving away from its racist roots of