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Clerical Collar

Articles of Interest

Avery Trufelman

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.93.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Pastor Zach never liked to wear a clerical collar. Suddenly, he finds himself wearing one all the time. 

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0:00.0

I have been a Presbyterian minister for 25 years.

0:04.6

As a Presbyterian pastor, Zach Wilson doesn't have to wear all that priest stuff.

0:10.0

Protestant churches are much less uniform, obviously, than Roman Catholic churches.

0:15.0

Doesn't have to wear the cassock or the chasible or the stole.

0:18.0

Nothing's required.

0:19.0

I would wear a collared shirt with a tie most of the time, not always a tie, but for the most

0:25.0

part, because I like ties.

0:27.3

And then how often would you wear the collar?

0:29.8

Never.

0:30.8

Really?

0:31.8

No.

0:32.8

I hate to say this, but like, I didn't want to be seen as that.

0:37.0

Because people have their feelings about what religion is.

0:39.5

People project things on you.

0:41.2

I never wore color till this.

0:43.7

And by this, Pastor Zach means when immigration and customs enforcement took over his city.

0:50.9

I'm the co-executive presbyter of the Presbyter of the Twin Cities area here in Minnesota.

0:57.0

So, you know, we had one church who had a Sudanese refugee family and the 22-year-old son was abducted and speared it off to Texas within hours and he was legal.

1:08.0

The Presbytery kicked in 10 grand and we were able to get him back, right?

1:13.2

Amazing.

1:14.2

But most people cannot marshal those sorts of resources. And there's a lot of making sure people have

1:20.2

money to do deliveries to people's homes because people are kind of shut in.

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