Enter the hush harbors.
During antebellum America, a hush harbor was a place where enslaved African would gather in secret to worship and organize. We working to glean from the wisdom of these antebellum hush harbors to cast a vision for a liberating church in the 21st century.
What the Spirit began in the hush harbors, continues still.
“While the plantation church enforced chattel slavery through the racist proof-texting of biblical submission narratives, another Christianity was being born in the antebellum hush harbors.”
—Liberating Church: A 21st Century Hush Harbor Manifesto