‘It’s taking that culture of death and repurposing it for the sake of life, telling this very long story of resistance to that white supremacist culture,’ said the Rev. Isaac Collins, a Methodist minister who attended the melting.
More than a half century after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. challenged the Christian church to "remove the yoke of segregation from its own body," an estimated one-sixth of U.S. congregations have succeeded in becoming at least partly multiracial — but not without struggles.
Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments have played many roles in recent years: a legal and cultural battle, a rallying spot, a place to confront America’s slave-owning past. Now, they’re fodder for a Bible study.