By Rick Wolcott* “This church has meant a lot to me,” Ida Campbell reflected. Standing in Beallsville United Methodist Church (Southern Hills District), she looked around and said, “I have been blessed by coming here.” Campbell and 50 other people ignored the single-digit January temperatures and made their way, one last time, to the church [...]
Playwright August Wilson gives us these rich characters and allows us to observe them in beautifully written dialogue filled with humor and occasional joy, but haunted by the past and life’s inequities and challenges. Fences is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning play and Director-Actor Denzel Washington uses the cast from the 2010 Broadway revival in [...]
By Rick Wolcott* Dozens of East Ohio Conference clergy came to celebrate the life of the Rev. Orlando Chaffee, 60, who passed away on December 18. His colleagues, dressed in black robes with white stoles, processed into the sanctuary at the beginning of the funeral service. “Rev. Chaffee gave 32 years of his life to [...]
