Seeking Social Justice

At its meeting on September 17, the Sojourners Church Council voted to send the following letter to John O. Wynne, University Rector and chair of the search committee for the new president of the University of Virginia.

This letter grew out of the work of a group then called the University Community Racial Reconciliation Project, now renamed the University Community Action for Racial Equity. This group had written a letter to Mr. Wynne asking for issues of racial justice to be part of the discussion in the search for a new president. They welcomed signers from the community at large. Sojourners, however, decided to write its own letter, which was approved by and sent on behalf of our church council.

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