By Jeff Woodard, United Church News… In collaboration with United Church of Christ-affiliated Talladega College in Alabama, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta has sent the exhibit “Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals” on a summertime tour of at least seven cities. The six-mural collection portraying the mutiny of the Amistad captives and its aftermath has been removed and restored, and will be on view to the public June 9-Sept. 2. Reproductions of three of the murals hang in the Amistad Chapel of the UCC’s Church House in Cleveland. “As [...]

By Susan Green, Special Contributor… LAKELAND, Fla.—The old chapel of the former Florida United Methodist Center here is still a quiet place for study and meditation—at least as quiet as a library for grade-school kids can be. On the walls are murals depicting Florida architecture, wildlife and a rocket blasting across a starry sky over a bank of computers. “We know the sky’s the limit for our children,” said Tracey Tedder, head of Roberts Academy, a private school for children with dyslexia that opened its doors in the former Florida [...]