Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; 
you shall raise up the foundations of many generations.

- Isaiah 58:12




Clergy Statement of Support
For Rapid Transit in Metropolitan Richmond
          
As clergy across Metropolitan Richmond, we call on the political and economic leaders of our differing jurisdictions to unite in creating a first-class public transportation system for the entire metropolitan region. 

We believe that the people of Metropolitan Richmond have endured centuries of division and conflict and that we should now step forward in solidarity, telling the world that we intend to be the capital city of reconciliation. 

We believe that God wants our people to live in mutual prosperity, in constructive relationships, in educated diversity, in justice, and in hope for the future. 

We believe that Metropolitan Richmond must be linked together with a comprehensive public transportation system for the sake of all our citizens. 

We know that Metropolitan Richmond is currently ranked in the bottom ten percent of American metro areas in public transportation, and can move to the top ten percent by building the four rapid transit lines, which have been identified by transportation planners and RVA Rapid Transit. 

We join with citizens of all of our jurisdictions, and with clergy and members of faith communities all over Metropolitan Richmond, asking our leaders to unite without delay in this common constructive cause. 

We invite clergy throughout Metropolitan Richmond to support this statement. 

This Statement of Support was created by the Metro Richmond ​Clergy Committee for Rapid Transit on June 18, 2015, at Richmond Hill. ​With its broad-based, diverse array of signatories, it provides a metropolitan-wide public witness and call for the kind of transit system that both symbolically and quite palpably reconciles our counties and city, genuinely ​opening access and connectivity for all.

To sign on in support, clergy please click here.


260 Supporters & Signatories

(listed alphabetically and updated as of April 26, 2016)

Rev. Samuel Adams
Rev. Wallace Adams-Riley
Imam Ammar Amonette
Rev. Levy Armwood
Rev. Randy Ashcraft
Rev. Darryl Badley, Jr.
Rev. Daniel Bagby
Rev. Judith Bledsoe Bailey 
Rev. Rosalind Banbury
Rev. Torlecia Bates
Rev. Emory Berry, Jr.
Rev. Louise Browner Blanchard
Rev. Steve Blanchard 
Rev. Earl Bledsoe
Rev. Brian Blount
Rev. Joel Blunk
Rev. Steven Booth
Rev. Molly Bosscher
Rev. Marc Boswell
Rev. John Brisco
Rev. Florence Brooks
Rev. Emily Rowell Brown
Rev. Jeanette Brown
Rev. Paul Brown 
Rev. Bert Browning
Rev. Douglas Burgoyne
Rev. Robert Burns
Rev. Edward Bushong
Rev. Jeff Butler
Rev. Lynne Caldwell 
Rev. Ben Campbell
Rev. Jeremy Cannada
Rev. Katie Cannon
Rev. Starke Cauthorn
Rev. Charles Chandler
Rev. Robert Chesnut 
Rev. Esther Choi
Rev. Larry Chottiner
Rev. Helen Clayton-Brown
Rev. Mike Clingenpeel
Rev. Mandy Cole
Rev. Don Coleman
Rev. Mary Kay Collins
Rev. David Cooper
Rev. Dwain Cosby
Rev. Kimberly Crowley
Imad Damaj
Rev. Todd Davidson
Rev. Jim Davis
Rev. Judy Webb Davis 
Rev. Patrick Dennis
Rev. Caitlin Thomas Deyerle
Rev. Kathy Doby
Rev. Barbara Duncan
Rev. Lindon Eaves
Rev. Susan Eaves
Rev. Leonard Edloe
Rev. April Edwards
Rev. Kerra Becker English
Rev. Alex Evans
Rev. Charlotte Evans
Rev. Melissa Fallen
Rev. Jean Flannagan
Rev. Johnnie Fleming, Jr.
Rev. Ricky Flowers
Rev. Patricia Fordham 
Rev. Elaine Bowen Fowler
Rev. Susan Fox
Rev. E.G. Francis
Rev. Anna Marie Franklin
Rev. Robert Friend
Rev. Preston Gainer
Rev. Frances Taylor Gench
Rev. Kevin Germer
Rev. Carmen Germino
Rev. Jeunee Godsey
Bishop Susan Goff
Rev. Mario Gonzalez
Rev. Katie B. Gooch
Rev. Patricia Gould-Champ 
Rev. Libby Grammer 
Rev. Jonathan Greenhill
Rev. Richard Haney
Rev. Duane Hardy
Rev. Queen Harris
Rev. Tony Harris
Rev. Jay Hartman
Rev. Tracy Hartman
Rev. Mike Harton
Rev. Audrey Hawkins
Rev. Josh Hayden
Rev. Morris Henderson
Rev. Matthew Hensley
Rev. Bob Hetherington
Rev. Stephen Hewlett
Rev. Linda Higgins
Rev. Rock Higgins
Rev. Keith Hill
Rev. Donna Holder
Rev. Melissa Hollerith
Rev. Randy Hollerith
Rev. Bobby Holmes
Rev. Aaron Houghton
Rev. Bobby Hulme-Lippert
Rev. Vernon Hurte
Bishop Darryl Husband, Sr.
Rev. Laura Inscoe
Rev. Ray Inscoe
Rev. Marlon Jackson
Rev. Janet James 
Rev. MJ Jefferson
Rev. Darcey Johnson
Rev. Drew Johnson
Rev. Pernell Johnson
Rev. Robert Johnson
Rev. Sheryl Johnson
Rev. Sheary Johnson
Elder Sundra Johnson
Rev. Teresa Johnson
Rev. Keith Johnston
Rev. Gary Jones
Rev. Robbie Jones
Rev. Wilda Carr Jones 
Rev. Michael Kellett
Rev. Andrea Kelly
Rev. Joe Kendrick
Rev. John Kerr
Rev. Brint Pratt Keyes
Rev. Carla Pratt Keyes
Rev. John Kinney
Rabbi Michael Knopf
Rev. Robert Knox
Rev. Gene LeCouteur
Rev. Bob Lee
Rev. Warren Lesane, Jr.
Rev. Kathryn Lester-Bacon
Rev. Marvin Lindsay 
Rev. Beverly Lindsey
Rev. Debora Logan
Rev. Sherman Logan, Jr.
Rev. Carroll Londoner 
Rev. J. Fletcher Lowe
Rev. Tom Lynch
Rev. Gina Maio
Rev. Mary Richerson Mann
Rev. Gordon Mapes
Rev. Donald Marsden
Rev. Sarah Marsh
Rev. Marcus Martin
Rev. Louise Mason
Rev. Weston Mathews
Rev. Johnnye Massenburg-Johnson
Rev. Lovelle Maxwell, Jr.
Rev. Rachel May
Rev. Lynn McClintock
Rev. Elizabeth McGuire
Rev. Meredith McNabb 
Rev. Lorenza Ricardo Meekins
Rev. Anna Miller
Rev. Bo Millner
Rev. Kenneth Mitchell, Sr.
Rev. Chris Mooney
Rev. Joel Morgan
Rev. Diane Mosby
Rev. Bernard Moritz
Rev. Melanie Mullen
Rev. Penny Nash
Rev. Sarah Nave
Rev. Tyrone Nelson
Rev. David Nieymeyer
Rev. Welford Orrock
Rev. Nelson Ould
Rev. Michelle Freeman Owens
Rev. Nelson Parker
Rev. Doug Paul
Rev. Jim Peak
Rev. Alvin Pierce
Rev. Steven Plymale
Rev. Jack Podsiadlo
Rev. Herbert Ponder 
Rev. Stephen Poore
Rev. Melody Porter
Rev. Dexter Price 
Rev. Waltena Pride
Rev. Canon Alonzo Pruitt
Rev. Jeanne Pupke
Rev. Lauren Ramseur
Rev. Alwin Reiners, Jr.
Rev. Kimberly Reinholz
Rev. Mairi Renwick
Rev. Nelson Reveley 
Rev. Braunda Ridley 
Rev. Alex Riffee
Rev. Phoebe Roaf
Rev. Raymond Roberts
Rev. Zach Roberts
Bishop Daniel Robertson, Jr.
Rev. Michael Robinson
Rev. Errol Rohr
Rabbi Ben Romer
Rev. Dorryce Ann Rudd 
Rev. Amy Russell
Rev. William Sachs
Rev. Dolores Seay
Rev. Robert Seiler
Rev. Pattie Sewell
Rev. Charles L. Shannon III
Rev. Wilson Shannon
Rev. Sue Sinnamon
Rev. Alexa Slonin
Rev. Hilary Smith
Rev. Sabrina Smith
Rev. Sylvester Smith
Rev. Jim Somerville
Rev. Ben Sparks
Rev. Qasarah Spencer
Rev. Stephen Starzer
Rev. Rose Mary Stewart
Rev. Catherine Stivers
Rev. Tom Stocks
Rev. Hilary Streever
Rev. Mary Sulerud
Rev. Charles Summers
Rev. Judith Sutherland
Rev. Charles Swadley
Rev. Kevin Sykes
Rev. John Tadlock
Rev. Andrew Terry
Rev. Marian Thomas
Rev. Daryl Thompson
Rev. Robert Thompson 
Rev. Katherine Todd
Rev. Newton Todd
Rev. Carmen Thornton
Rev. William Tuck
Rev. Yvonne Tunstall
Rev. Lynn Turner
Rev. Sylvester Turner
Rev. Darren Utley
Rev. John Vest
Rev. Horace Wade, Jr. 
Rev. Brenda Walker
Rev. Janie Walker
Rev. Rodney Waller
Rev. Rebecca Weaver
Rev. William Wells
Rev. Tony Whittingham, Jr.
Rev. Corey Widmer
Rev. Freda Wilkins
Rev. Charles Williams
Rev. Louis Williams
Bishop Robert E. Williams, Sr.
Rev. Tiont Williams
Rev. Canon Patrick Wingo
Rev. Sara-Scott Wingo
Rev. Janet Winslow
Rev. Gwendolyn Young
Rev. Karen-Marie Yust