Franklin Golden
Co-pastor, Durham Church
Franklin Golden is the co-pastor of Durham Church, a new congregation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He has served churches in Durham, Charlotte and Troy, N.C. He has an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School, and before attending seminary was a musical theater producer in New York and Charlotte, N.C.
Franklin Golden: The diverse church as musical production
A new book on church music and diversity shows that it’s not the music itself that brings people together, but the act of making it that does.
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