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12 Reasons Millennials Are OVER Church Only 4 percent of the Millennial Generation are Bible-Based Believers. This means that 96 percent of Millennials likely don’t live out the teachings of the Bible, value the morals of Christianity and probably won’t be found in a church. This author goes deep to explain why. From the depths […]
Community Renewal Team (CRT) Capital City YouthBuild AmeriCorps program is currently recruiting young people from Hartford, between the ages of 18-24. The participants selected will have the opportunity to obtain their high school diploma and develop skills for success while pursuing a career in Construction or Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). Participants who have their high school diploma, […]
Muslim President of Hartford, Connecticut NAACP branch. By Imam kashif Abdul-Karim Muhammad Islamic Center of Greater Hartford, Connecticut In the year 2017 the Hartford chapter of the […]
Bear’s Smokehouse Owners Raising Minimum Wage To $15 An Hour For Most Employees Jamie McDonald and Cheryl McDonald Co-Owner’s of the fast-growing Bear’s Smokehouse franchise, are planning to raise the minimum wage of all their “non-tip” employees to $15 an hour. The state’s minimum wage will rise from $9.60, to $10.10, as of Jan. 1. […]
White Jews Have A Duty To Stand With Muslims And People Of Color White Jews Have A Duty To Stand With Muslims And People Of Color Our current fears — which are new to some of us — are what many other people have been facing for generations. Sarah Ruiz-Grossman Associate Editor, The Huffington […]
A new chapter for Hebrew HealthCare By Cindy Mindell CT Jewish Ledger Online WEST HARTFORD – In 1901, the Hebrew Ladies’ Sick Benefit Association first started collecting nickels to help the elderly indigent of Hartford. “The Handkerchief Brigade,” as those early fund-raisers were dubbed, would go door to door until they had enough money to […]
How You Can Help The Standing Rock Sioux Fight The Dakota Access Pipeline By Pax Ahimsa Gethen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53199433 Here’s where to call, donate, volunteer or send supplies. Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline have been going on since the project was approved in July. Hundreds of protesters have […]
Pope Warns Media Over ‘Sin’ Of Spreading Fake News, Smearing Politicians Spreading Disinformation is “the greatest damage that the media can do.” Media that focus on scandals and spread fake news to smear politicians risk becoming like people who have a morbid fascination with excrement, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Wednesday. Francis […]
Set the Minimum Wage at $15 per hour At the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ (CT-UCC), a resolution was adopted which called for a minimum wage of $15 per hour beginning in 2019. The resolution was sponsored by Faith Congregational Church UCC, Asylum Hill Congregational Church UCC, […]
First Advent, Now Epiphany ? What? First we celebrated Advent, the 40 day period leading up to Christmas, complete with frenzied shopping and partying. (BTW, it seems that the commercial “Christmas” season starts earlier every year. I saw Christmas in stores in early October this year!) Now we are celebrating the 12 days of Christmas, ending […]
The Dalai Lama said: “If every 8-year-old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.” This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning. By James Gaines Imagine you’re working at a school and one of the kids is starting to act up. What do you […]
The Case For Incorporating Spiritual Care In Medicine “We need to back away from the computer and really listen.” Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Blumberg writes, “Dr. Christina Puchalski is familiar with death. The palliative care doctor and founder of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) has seen […]
Protect Your Child’s Education for Free Are you: Between 19 and 42 The parent or legal guardian of one or more dependents under 18 A permanent, legal resident of the USA Currently employed full or part time with a total family income of between $10,000 and $40,000 The only parent or legal guardian in your […]