“Climate change is well underway,” Wen Stephenson told the audience seated in St. Andrews Episcopal Church’s office space. Behind him, slides projected quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and images of activists blocking the path of a coal train.
Just months before, the church had opened its doors and offered soup and a warm place to stay while Stephenson and his comrades waited for a coal train to pass through. In the frigid, early morning hours of Dec. 8, they gathered on the tracks to stop the train on its way to a coal plant in Bow, N.H.
“We were glad to make it possible for them to be here,” said parishioner Faith Salter.