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White Supremacy and The United Methodist Church: Re-Telling the Past to Build an Anti-Racist Future
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 [...]
East Ohio Churches Working Together, Modeling John Wesley’s Charge to “Do All the Good You Can” in Helping Others
By Joel Chermonte* As United Methodists we are connectional in many ways: institutionally by jurisdiction, conference and district; theologically through scripture; and through the writings of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement in England in the late 1700s. When we work together and experience the power of the Holy Spirit, connectionalism comes alive. Almost [...]