It’s 1,000 miles from Concordia Lutheran Church in Duluth to the flattened mountaintops where coal is mined in eastern Kentucky. But Pastor David Tryggestad wants his congregation to close the gap.

Tryggestad is one of several Duluth preachers who recently have taken up so-called mountaintop removal coal mining as an affront against God’s creation, and he plans on preaching to his flock about what’s happening and why he thinks it’s wrong.

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