Rev. Bruce Batchelor-Glader, our movie reviewer, writes: It is 1957 and the United States is involved in an ongoing Cold War with the Soviet Union. Both countries are concerned about the possibilities for a nuclear war. The Soviets have been the first to enter the space race with the successful launching of the Sputnik satellite. [...]
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Greetings and Gratitude from Liberia
By Rick Wolcott* Rev. Roosevelt Goah brought greetings and gratitude from Liberia during a visit with Bishop John Hopkins and members of the East Ohio executive staff at the conference Area Center on October 28. The superintendent of the St. John River District in Liberia told the bishop, “Our districts received rice from your conference [...]
North Central Jurisdiction will retain nine Episcopal Areas in the next quadrennium.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: We are pleased to announce that the General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA) will issue a release today explaining that the North Central Jurisdiction (NCJ) will retain nine Episcopal Areas in the next quadrennium. Following the September 23 GCFA release that reported NCJ membership at 1,210,538, conference statisticians discovered that new [...]
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