WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Some issues, like immigration or student loans, are too divisive to unite Trinity Moravian Church.
“We’ve got quite a spread of political beliefs,” said the Rev. John Jackman, who leads this 114-year-old red-brick church near Winston-Salem’s old textile mills.
Conservative Republicans sit with liberal Democrats. Supporters of President Donald Trump mix with his fierce critics.
“It’s definitely a purple congregation,” Jackman said.
But four years ago, when Jackman suggested a new church mission to alleviate medical debt for residents of the wider Winston-Salem area, there was no dissent.
“This is the easiest money I’ve ever raised,” he said. “All I do is
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