Saturday, December 7, 2019

A Parish Responds Appropriately to a Betrayal

“Hi, Nathan,” said Brian Shrader, a deputy with the Brown County Sheriff’s Department. “Remember me?” 
“Yeah,” Stang replied. It was Shrader who had interviewed him after an appalling act of vandalism at St. David’s Episcopal Church, where Stang played the organ and directed the choir. On the Sunday morning after the 2016 election, Stang had discovered the church’s walls defaced with black spray paint: a swastika, along with the words “Heil Trump”....
Please read the whole thing, even though the journalist struggles mightily to lay fault with the miscreant’s mother, the Christian response of the congregation is admirable.  It's always tricky when a church hires non-theistic staff.  They never quite seem to get what the church is about.

Regrettably, what is left unsaid is that the hate crime hoax essentially destroyed the congregation.