By Rick Wolcott* Bishop Tracy S. Malone, resident bishop of the East Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church, and the Methodist Foundation of Ohio hosted 34 clergy and laity on a pilgrimage to Turkey and Greece. Over the course of nine days, participants walked in areas where Paul had ministered in Laodicea, Hierapolis, Ephesus, [...]
By Rick Wolcott* How To Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going: Resilient Leadership was the theme for the 2022 Bishops’ Retreat with Black Clergy. Dozens of clergy persons from the East Ohio Conference and the West Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church gathered September 6-8 at the Nationwide Hotel and Conference Center [...]
By Brett Hetherington* “Societies become great when old men and women plant trees under whose shade they know they will never sit.” There was wisdom to be gleaned from this paraphrase of an old Greek proverb shared by Mr. James Salley, associate vice chancellor for Institutional Advancement & president/CEO of AU Tennessee, Inc., during the [...]
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