One church – two sides of an argument

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I recently discovered something new whilst reading David Olusoga’s Black and British: A Forgotten History. It concerns William Wilberforce and another man called George Hibbert. These two men lived opposite each other on Clapham Common and worshipped together at Holy Trinity on the North side of the common which had strong evangelic roots. If you visit the church today you …