If you’ve run out of church-appropriate outfits or just feel like clothes are hindering you entirely, good news – you can ditch the threads full stop at the White Tail Chapel.
For this is where worshippers are invited to bare their souls, and the rest, just as God made them.
Services are presided over by Pastor Allen Parker who has decided clothing requirements at other churches are “pretentious.”
Pastor Allen Parker presides over the congregation at the White Tail Chapel
“When he [Jesus] was born he was naked, when he was crucified he was naked and when he arose he left his clothes in the tomb and he was naked,” he explained to NBC 12.
For good measure, he adds: “If God made us that way, how can that be wrong?”
Katie and Robert Church are regular attendees
The chapel sits in the grounds of the White Tail Resort – ‘a family nudist community’ in Ivor, Virginia.
And even if this is all a bit new to you, fret not – according to the resort’s website, first time nudists are being offered a free pass.
Praise him.