By Rick Wolcott* An estimated 80,000 people marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 8 in remembrance of the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Last year’s motion picture Selma was based on the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches that led to the creation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In [...]
By Rick Wolcott* In 1982 Bishop James S. Thomas convened the first Black Clergy Retreat in East Ohio. Bishop Gregory Palmer of the West Ohio Conference was a pastor in East Ohio at the time and attended the retreat at Mohican Lodge and Conference Center in Perrysville. “He had in mind the care of all [...]
Registration is now open for the The Wesley Book Study, an examination of the lives and works of John and Charles Wesley. The study will be based on the book John & Charles Wesley: Selections from Their Writings and Hymns – Annotated & Explained by Paul Chilcote, PhD. East Ohio clergy will lead the monthly [...]
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