Christ Church is so symbolic to the birth of America that it's called the Nation's Church. It’s the site where George Washington worshipped and where colonial America made its break with the Church of England.
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Church members see the role of their congregation as crucial, a beacon ahead of a contentious presidential election in Pennsylvania — the most pivotal of swing states. They also express concerns about political division that the Founding Fathers once feared could tear the nation apart. The church was founded in 1695 by a group of Philadelphia colonists as the first parish of the Church of England in Pennsylvania. Congregants later included slaves and their owners, loyalists and patriots. They listened to sermons favoring and opposing independence.
“The idea of what do we do in this political environment right now and how do we deal with that is an incredible challenge,” she says. “Most of our congregations are not a unified voting bloc. They represent different people much like at the time of the American revolution.” One church member, Absalom Jones, attended services while enslaved to a man serving in the church leadership. Jones bought his freedom and eventually became ordained as the first Black priest of the Episcopal Church. He also went on to co-create the Free African Society of Philadelphia, which Fea says “sought to apply the rights secured from the American Revolution to the 2,000 or so free Black men and women living in the city at the time.
Today, the AME Church has more than 2.5 million members and thousands of congregations in dozens of nations worldwide.
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