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Buried in the church columbarium February 17, 2021 By confessing the story of a racist gift, a Cincinnati congregation takes the first step in dismantling structural racism by Paul Seebeck | Presbyterian News Service CINCINNATI — The gift of $22,000, which after legal fees would be worth around $250,000 in today’s dollars, was given to Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati exactly 100 years ago to aid the congregation in constructing a new church. But according to Knox’s pastor, the Rev. Adam Fronczek, there was “some lore” in the congregation about the gift, which c...

Redeeming a racist bequest December 10, 2020 Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati takes a listen, learn and act approach to mitigate structural racism after it learns about the terms of a century-old gift that helped build the church by Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service Leaders and members of Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati have been working to end structural racism since learning a gift that helped construct the church a century ago was intended for white people only. (Mike Fitzer/180 Degrees) CINCINNATI — Ever since discovering  their church was built a century ago ...