A Hug Remembered – One of the great gifts of serving a congregation is the opportunity to hear people’s stories.  Because I am, “a minister,” people share things with me — often things that are very personal, and very profound.

When people think about our congregation’s racial justice programming, one concern sometimes raised is that we do a lot of thinking and talking about racism, but not a lot of doing anything proactive and productive to change things.  It can certainly be argued that, for people who have been raised to think of themselves as white,...

The group Allies for Racial Equity, in collaboration with the Church of the Larger Fellowship, is hosting a series of webinar conversations to support racial justice efforts, and the next two sessions focus on white resistance.  Youth and adults of all ages are encouraged to participate, whether this is their first experience...

Last night Dr. M. Rick Turner, President of the Albemarle-Charlottesville chapter of the NAACP, spoke to a group of about 3 dozen people who had come to hear his thoughts about the most serious issues facing Charlottesville’s African American community, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the best way white...