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Denominations repent for Native American land grabs

Posted September 20th, 2018

“You cannot understand our history as a country until you understand the history of the church.” That’s how Mark Charles — a Navajo pastor, speaker and author — began his presentation to a room full of missionaries in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which gathered this past summer for their annual meeting.

First Presbyterian Church seeks healing, redemption for sins committed during civil rights era

Posted April 25th, 2017

In 1956, First Presbyterian Church in Montgomery, Alabama, decreed that no member of the “Negro race” would be allowed in its church. The present day congregation has spent the past two years repenting for this decision.