October 1-7 is Nonviolence Week in Ohio “Take a moment and think about what does it mean to be nonviolent, and are you living your life that way?” Savannah Sockwell asked the hundreds gathered in Youngstown on Oct. 1 for the 7th Annual Nonviolence Parade and Rally. Sockwell is a participant in the Sojourn to [...]
By Rick Wolcott* “A key foundational strategy for discipleship is congregational health. Healthy churches make healthy disciples. Healthy disciples make healthy disciples. Healthy disciples transform the world.” These recent words spoken by Bishop Tracy S. Malone echo her Annual Conference Episcopal Address message that congregational health is a priority of the East Ohio Conference this [...]
"Stronger is based on Jeff Bauman’s 2014 memoir and is enhanced by Bauman’s personal participation in the project. There is an honesty about the family scenes that reveal the messiness and conflicted relationships that are a part of the family ties that bind. Jeff’s mother Patty (Miranda Richardson) is smothering and sometimes coarse, but it [...]
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