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* A large crowd of East Ohio Conference laity and clergy was on hand Saturday November 18 to hear guest theologian the Rev. Dr. Sidney S. Williams, Jr. share about what it means to have a Just Economy. That was the theme of Black Theologian Day 2023, an annual East Ohio Conference Connectional [...]
By Rick Wolcott* “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their ‘thus saith the Lord’ far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus [...]
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