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NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A group of the nation s leading Black clergy led by Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III kicked off its nationwide Choose Healthy Life (CHL) initiative yesterday to address health disparities in the Black community through the Black Church by hosting its first COVID-19 testing event at historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, N.Y. The Choose Healthy Life Action Plan will provide services including COVID-19 testing, vaccine awareness and preventative health education through 50 churches across five cities in a historic partnership with United Way of New York City, Quest Diagnostics and America s leading public health experts.
Corpus Christi pastor reflects on city, country ahead of MLK Day
Corpus Christi pastor reflects on city, country ahead of MLK Day
and last updated 2021-01-18 10:59:17-05
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â Although his days as a high school athlete are well behind him, Pastor Claude Axel can still recall the times of racism and segregation when he would leave the Corpus Christi area.
Born in the small town of Taylor, just northeast of Austin; at the age of six, Axel moved to Corpus Christi.
He recalls having many black mentors in his early life, but doesnât believe he had any black teachers once he made it to Miller High School.
Hymn database sees spike in 2020 as Christians worship at home
‘In this time of uncertainty and fear, Christians around the globe turn to scripture and turn to song for comfort,’ according to the website Hymnary.org. Photo by Michael Maasen/Unsplash/Creative Commons
December 30, 2020
Many Christians also turned to hymns for comfort at home, according to Hymnary.org.
Users of the online database doubled as the novel coronavirus closed many church buildings this spring, and the website now is nearing 40 million page views for 2020, its highest ever.
“I do think that this time we’re in when everything is turned upside down makes everybody search for meaning, opens them up to the presence of God, looking for ways to express their spirituality, so there are more people searching for such things,” said Harry Plantinga, a professor of computer science at Calvin University and founder of Hymnary.org.
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If you want a sense of just how much the Buffalo Bills mean to Vaughn Washington, here you go.
Washington survived a Covid-19 infection that brought him to the edge. It began with general weakness, with the absence of taste and smell. It quickly became so difficult to draw a breath that Washington asked his brother James for a ride to the hospital.
For 24 days that began in August and ended in mid-September, Washington was a patient at Buffalo General Medical Center, where he spent more than two weeks in an induced coma that he believes saved his life, within intensive care.