Month: August 2020

Guest Column: Partnership with schools & churches in Columbus a powerful testimony (AUDIO)

Most public schools across the country are either attempting to hold school remotely or, in some hybrid form, brings kids back in the classroom in a limited way, keeping the numbers low. And that’s just for now. The plan has already changed in many districts and will likely change again

Mansfield City Council says social justice resolution holds no merit

MANSFIELD — This month, Mansfield City Council rejected a resolution declaring systemic racism as a public health crisis. Activists behind the resolution failed to demonstrate local examples of racism and failed to shake its ties with the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement. The measure did not receive support from the

Ashland becomes spiritual hot spot following sacred assembly (VIDEO)

ASHLAND — This past weekend Bible believers were in hot pursuit of GOD’s presence with clergy, ministry leaders, and elected officials leading a corporate call to prayer and repentance. In the midst of a pandemic and national social unrest, a collaboration of twenty-five churches associated with the local Ashland County

Guest Column: Log Cabin Republicans threaten GOP platform on sexuality (VIDEO)

The Republican National Committee (RNC) voted this week to keep the 2016 platform, in part due to the intransigence of Democrat governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina. He refused the RNC the opportunity to convene before this year’s national convention. This is customarily when platform issues are reviewed and updates

Sacred assembly planned at Ashland Freer Field August 23rd (VIDEO)

ASHLAND — With churches around the country facing lockdowns and reverting to online services, local believers in the Buckeye Bible Belt will be exercising their freedom to assemble together…. in the open. This coming Sunday a sacred assembly sponsored by the Ashland County Ministerial Association (ACMA) has been announced, inviting

Group of 74 evangelical leaders call for porn to be classified as health crisis

MANSFIELD — This past June the U.S. State Department identified nearly twenty-five million people entrapped in the modern-day slavery of human trafficking. In response to the crisis, fifteen states have officially declared pornography an epidemic and public health crisis. If local clergy have their way, Ohio may be the next

Faith community a key contributor for positive race relations (SLIDESHOW)

MANSFIELD — As violence and rioting plague major metropolitan centers across the nation, race relations continue to be tense. According to Mansfield’s top cop, he believes law enforcement cannot be a ‘lone ranger’ and that the city is ahead of the curve because it has what police dispatchers call “backup.”