Chapter 1: Why did Pastor Zach avoid wearing a clerical collar before?
I have been a Presbyterian minister for 25 years.
As a Presbyterian pastor, Zach Wilson doesn't have to wear all that priest stuff.
Protestant churches are much less uniform, obviously, than Roman Catholic churches.
Doesn't have to wear the cassock or the chasuble or the stole. Nothing's required.
I would wear a collared shirt with a tie most of the time. Not always a tie, but for the most part, because I like ties.
And then how often would you wear the collar?
Never.
Really?
No. I hate to say this, but like, I didn't want to be seen as that. Because people have their feelings about what religion is. People project things on you. I never wore a collar to this.
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Chapter 2: What events led Pastor Zach to start wearing the collar regularly?
That's another reason we were at the airport.
It was freezing.
22 below is cold.
But Pastor Zach and his hundreds of colleagues held up pictures of the Minnesotans who had been abducted, and they sang protest songs and hymns for as long as they could. Was this your first time getting arrested?
Yeah. They took us to school buses, drove us to a parking lot, and then somebody in a cop car issued all the citations and then let us go. It feels odd because, I mean, obviously the whole thing is performative, but a lot of the people doing the actual groundwork, the mutual aid, the delivery and stuff, we're told don't do both.
If ICE knows who you are, don't be delivering stuff to people's houses because they have followed people home and people have, you know, they have facial recognition on their phone. Someone at this place by our house went up to someone I know and said, Hey, Cheryl, because they had ID'd her from like someone from ICE went up to.
Yes.
Like, hey, yeah, that's common.
That's so wild.
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