Perseverance is the name given to the new Mars Rover. Seventh grader Alex Mather, who won a contest to name it, was not describing the Rover, but the people who made it. They persevered and kept pushing the limits. In Luke 18:1-8, a persistent widow kept telling a judge that her rights were ...
For black clergy across the United States, the past 10 days have been a tumultuous test of their stamina and their skills. For weeks, they had been striving to comfort their congregations amid a pandemic taking a disproportionately heavy toll on African-Americans. Then came a coast-to-coast ...
If God had let Dr. Joseph DeMay know what he had planned for him, that He would want him to write a 120,000-word book while taking care of a private practice of almost 5,000 patients, DeMay admitted that he would have said there was no way. “I can’t take time off. I don’t have anyone ...
I think it is safe to say, considering the pandemic, that we are craving healing and unity in ways we had not imagined possible a few months ago. Health care providers have been on the front-lines of our physical care. Mental health specialists and social workers are treating emotional and ...
Medical professionals from UPMC in the Susquehanna region have partnered with a team of spiritual leaders from the United Churches of Lycoming County to develop faith-based guidelines to assist spiritual leaders with how best to reopen places of worship while keeping congregations safe, according to a recent press release. The Getting Back to Worship Safely Guide contains recommendations for establishing a minimal set of standards in several categories for resuming faith traditions, including social distancing, facility and material sanitation, personal protective equipment, and ...
LOS ANGELES — Hadar Cohen, Ala’ Khan, Maya Mansour and Jonathan Simcosky arrived as strangers, ready to embark on a new interfaith journey. The four roommates moved into a five-bedroom, five-bath house in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood earlier this year. They come from different ...
