"...I do a lot of theater. One Presbytery meeting, they had the Council of Churches in for dinner, of all the Akron churches, and I hired this guy to dress up like Santa Claus and come in the middle of dinner,
"Ho, ho, ho," and he had a big bag of toys, and then I had a bunch of little kids run in behind him--white kids--and everybody thought that was the gig with the supper. So then he's giving out gifts, and then I had twelve black kids run in behind him, and he started hitting them with his bag. We were trying to make a statement on racism in the church. You can imagine how that affected my fellow clergy..."

Wade Blank, 1992