A&O Meetup: St. John's Lutheran Church | Atlanta, Georgia

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Ernest Disney-Britton

GEORGIA---Atlanta's St. John's Lutheran Church, organized in 1869, is the oldest Lutheran church in the city. The sanctuary, added on in 1969, is a contemporary octagonal shape representing the "eighth day of creation" (our new creation through our baptism into the death and resurrection of Jesus), was considered very contemporary in 1969" (How clever is that?). I met the recently reinstated "Gay" pastor, Brad Schmeling at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in 2008 as part of a community forum of gay discrimination in the church. We’ll be there tomorrow.