Voting is one of the ways we can exercise our power to form and protect the communities we care about. For democracy to continue to work, we must make a habit of using our voice at the polls on every single election day. Join us in voting this November, and [...]
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Voting is one of the ways we can exercise our power to form and protect the communities we care about. For democracy to continue to work, we must make a habit of using our voice at the polls on every single election day. Join us in voting this November, and in future elections, to build the Ohio and America of…
James Cone, in his book The Cross and the Lynching Tree, quotes AME Bishop Bishop Daniel Payne who wrote in 1839, “Sometimes, it seems as though some wild beast had plunged his fangs into my heart, and was squeezing out its life blood. Then I began to question the existence of God and to say, “If he does exist, is he just?…
When the announcement was made that Joe Biden had won the presidency in the November General Election, I literally took what felt like a cleansing breath. For four years, I had internalized a type of stress that was ongoing. Every day there was some new attack, some crazy Twitter message. The goal of the former president seemed to be to…
(Note: Every Tuesday I write a piece for what I call “Tuesday Meditations” and send them out to those who want to receive them. In light of the brilliant performance of poet Amanda Gorman today at the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, I thought I would share this meditation on my blog because it was…