These Church Members Disagree on Politics. Together They’re Wiping Out Medical Debt.

This story is republished from KFF Health News.

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

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