"With all the reverence due God’s work through this “place of calm and beauty,” there is an accounting to be told of his people’s complicity with slavery and segregation. Except for the city’s founding Quakers, historic Lynchburg churches perpetuated the same racial hierarchy as other institutions across our nation." Thank you for not shying away from this. We must not be afraid to look and see.
"With all the reverence due God’s work through this “place of calm and beauty,” there is an accounting to be told of his people’s complicity with slavery and segregation. Except for the city’s founding Quakers, historic Lynchburg churches perpetuated the same racial hierarchy as other institutions across our nation." Thank you for not shying away from this. We must not be afraid to look and see.