How to Restore a Fallen Pastor
It’s Sunday morning, and your worship service has begun in the usual way. Following an opening prayer, an elderly board member, head bowed, walks slowly to the podium. He nervously fidgets with his microphone, sending crackles throughout the silent room. His index finger flips the screen on his tablet notes. He speaks slowly. “Friends, it […]
Reconciliation Across the Ages
Life is about relationships. It is about our relationship with God and our relationship with one another. Forgiveness is the salve which brings healing to our connections with God and humanity and reconciliation is the adhesive that binds and restores these relations, to a state of wholeness and health. “So if you are offering your […]
Garner Couldn’t Breathe, but We Need To
“I can’t breathe” On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died at Staten Island, New York, allegedly after a police officer put him in a chokehold. According to reports, After Garner expressed to the police that he was tired of being harassed and that he was not selling cigarettes, officers moved to arrest Garner on suspicion […]
Increase of Colorectal Cancer Among Young People
Marc Sonenshine, M.D. Board Certified, Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates, affiliated with Northside Hospital in Atlanta, GA Many of us, think of colorectal cancer as an older person’s problem, but the recent data that is out about colorectal cancer is alarming. Incidences of colorectal cancer have been decreasing by about 1 percent a […]
