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Please join Faith Church in supporting Mart’s House On Saturday, June 15th, Mart’s House reentry home on Capen St. in Hartford was devastated by a major fire. The seven women who were living at Mart’s are safe, but they lost everything. (Learn more about Mart’s House). Please consider a donation today to our Resettlement Program […]
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Medicare / Medicaid FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://www.ct.gov/agingservices/lib/agingservices/choices/newtomedunderstandingyouroptions.pdf CHOICES: Connecticut’s program for Health insurance assistance, Outreach, Information and referral, Counseling, Eligibility Screening: https://www.ct.gov/agingservices/cwp/view.asp?q=313032 Center for Medicare Advocacy: http://www.medicareadvocacy.org/medicare-info/connecticut-consumers-guide/ US News Health: https://health.usnews.com/medicare/connecticut-medicare-plans
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Diabetic Retinopathy Are you diabetic? If you have diabetes, you may get a condition called diabetic retinopathy. This eye disease happens when high levels of blood sugar damage blood vessels in a part of your eye called the retina. This can cause vision problems. For people with diabetes, it’s the most common cause of vision loss and blindness. Read the article HERE. Driving With Diabetes: How to Stay […]
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Do You Know Cornelius Strong? Cornelius Strong enlisted from Hartford as a sargeant in Company G of the Twenty Ninth Regiment on December 23, 1863. Born in CT, he was 22 years old, single, and worked as a waiter. He was a member of the African American Religious Society of Hartford, the predecessor to Faith […]
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Public radio’s ‘Preach’ podcast explores religion’s messy side September 4, 2019 by Jana Riess (RNS) — Religion is messy, says Lee Hale, a reporter at KUER, the NPR station in Salt Lake City. And for many Americans, especially young people like the 30-year-old Hale, that messiness is something to celebrate, not sweep under the carpet. That’s […]
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Yeezianity – The Church of Yeezus (Photo by Gabriel Olsen/FilmMagic) Yeezianity is a religion based on Kanye West. The 36-year-old rapper has in fact inspired a new religion called Yeezianity, in which followers believe “that the one who calls himself Yeezus is a divine being who has been sent by God to usher in a […]
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SOMEONE HAS YOUR PASSWORD By Chris Gaarde, Assistant Editor, American Consequences In just the first six months of 2019, there were 4.1 billion “compromised records” in data breaches… including passwords, usernames, private photos, credit card data, and even Social Security numbers. Earlier this year Google introduced an optional Chrome browser extension – kind of like an app for […]
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Tong tackles three immigration issues in four days by Kelan Lyons In the first four days of September, Attorney General William Tong’s office has been involved in three different immigration-related cases, joining several coalitions of like-minded state attorneys general who object to — and are demanding information about — the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants. […]
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Lonnie Jones, center, is applauded by Bridgeport residents celebrating his release from prison. Credit: CTMirror.org, used with permission Bridgeport — Seeing Lonnie Jones walk into the basement of Mount Aery Baptist Church was a surreal moment for Tino Negron. The previous day, Jones had stepped outside the confines of a federal prison for the first time […]
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100,000 Sisters Making Strides Toward Better Health GirlTrek brings Black women together for weekly walks in neighborhoods across the country. By Rebekah Sager I’ll admit it. I’m not a gym girl. But I am a walking girl. I love to walk. And more than that, I love to walk (and talk) with friends. I also […]
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Toni Morrison 2/18/ 1931 – 8/5/ 2019 Toni Morrison (Courtesy Alfred A. Knopf) Toni Morrison was an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National […]
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Religious communities often face a choice: Sell off the buildings they can no longer afford, or find a way to fill them with new uses. NOV 25, 2018 Jonathan Merritt, Contributing writer for The Atlantic http://timesofahmad.blogspot.com/2015/03/usa-more-than-3000-people-leave-church.html Many of our nation’s churches can no longer afford to maintain their structures—6,000 to 10,000 churches die each year in […]
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