God's Acre

Season 1, Episode 17 Landmarks With Leon

God's Acre

Step into God’s Acre, Bethlehem’s Moravian cemetery founded in 1742. This episode uncovers the “democracy of death”—equal flat stones, choir-ordered burials, and graves of Moravian leaders, Native converts, and veterans—tracing how ritual equality, community faith, and reverent silence shaped life, memory, and belonging in America’s earliest Moravian settlement.