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Eamon Queeney/For The Washington Post The former Methodist church in Linden, N.C., is now the worship and meeting home for a controversial whites-only group, the Asatru Folk Assembly. Parkers Grove United Methodist Church has stood for a century along the road into tiny Linden, New Jersey in the US, yet recent decades have not been kind. The churchs wood exterior is cracked, its steeple weathered, its sign broken. Its congregation, which had struggled to fill the 18 pews, held the final servic...

The Fayetteville Observer Years ago, I covered the Linden Town Council and would drive the more than 20 miles from Fayetteville for the 8 p.m. council meetings. It was pleasant enough duty. But I was invariably sleepy on the way back. Looking back it’s a miracle I did not wreck. Sometimes, I was the only nonofficial person at the meeting and was always treated well. I found nothing different from Linden than you might see in any little town in southeastern North Carolina. So I don’t now why...

The Fayetteville Observer LINDEN — A pagan organization that says it wants to ensure the survival of white people has a meeting place in Cumberland County. The Asatru Folk Assembly excludes non-white members and has been designated a racist, hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The religious group is worshipping the Norse god Thor in a building where generations of families sang gospel hymns and heard Christian sermons. The organization was given property that started as Parker’...