January 9, 2017 Human Relations Day , January 15, is one of six Special Sundays in The United Methodist Church. On the Sunday before the national observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, our denomination recognizes the right of all God’s children in realizing their potential as human beings in relationship with one another. Treasurer's [...]
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 [...]
