By Brett Hetherington* “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The words from Spanish philosopher George Santayana have been repeated so frequently that you’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard them before. The best way to remember our collective past is to re-tell its stories. On September 21 [...]
By Brett Hetherington* The targeted firebombing, looting and vandalism of the Hough Uprising that rocked the Cleveland neighborhood July 18-24, 1966, began after the white owners of the Seventy-Niners Café refused to serve a glass of water to a Black customer. Nearly six decades later the East Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church played [...]
By Brett Hetherington* When Will Fenton-Jones, director of Multicultural Ministries, set out to create a space for clergy and laity in the East Ohio Conference to share a role-playing game experience no one in the group could have imagined that it would have led to ministering to people at one of the most family-friendly and [...]
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