Inside Out has enough good psychology to make it a great discussion film for parents and children; it also has enough goofiness to keep it from ever becoming too heavy-handed. Its visual forebears include everything from 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, 1953’s The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., the 1953 Merrie Melodies cartoon “Duck Amuck” [...]
Category: Local Church
Prayers for Emanuel AME
Many East Ohio Conference churches have reached out in love and support to our brothers and sisters in Christ in Charleston, SC, following the deadly shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Boardman United Methodist Church (Mahoning Valley District) was recently featured in a front page article in The Youngstown Vindicator for the congregation’s ministry [...]
Celebrating Love, Confronting Hate
By Rick Wolcott* “We stand here tonight amongst racial prejudices, hate, and those that have decided not to love, to bring about some love in this place,” said the Rev. Hilton Smith. “America is in need of a love transfusion.” Smith, president of the Cleveland branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored [...]