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Lead crisis: Flint braces as Michigan shuts down free bottled water sites “My water stinks. It still burns to take a shower. There’s no way they can say it’s safe.” by Erik Ortiz / Apr.09.2018 / 11:44 AM ET / Updated Apr.09.2018 / 2:39 PM ET Shawn Jones, 42, right, and Tony Price, 54, distribute bottled water at a point […]
28 Days, 28 Films for Black History Month By MANOHLA DARGIS and A.O. SCOTT https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/01/movies/28-essential-films-black-history-month.html 2/1/18 IT HAS BEEN ALMOST A YEAR since Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight” won the Oscar for best picture. This awards season, Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” and Dee Rees’s “Mudbound” have received multiple nominations and accolades, optimistic signs that black filmmakers are receiving more opportunities in the […]
FCC Missions Ministry, in partnership with Community Partners in Action, is supporting our Back Pack program for the 3rd straight year. The program provides backpacks of toiletries for women being released from prison. Often leaving York Correctional Institution with little or nothing, these women have few resources and many needs. The Missions Ministry is […]
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. […]
Pope Francis Extends Power To Forgive Abortion To All Catholic Priests Pope Francis on Monday extended indefinitely to all Roman Catholic priests the power to forgive abortion, a right previously reserved for bishops or special confessors in most parts of the world. Francis, who has made a more inclusive and forgiving Roman Catholic Church a characteristic […]
Where the Public Stands on Religious Liberty vs. Nondiscrimination Two-thirds say employers should provide birth control in insurance plans, but public is split over same-sex wedding services and use of public bathrooms by transgender people The U.S. public expresses a clear consensus on the contentious question of whether employers who have religious objections to contraception […]
I, Racist What follows is the beginning of the text of a congregational reflection given by John Metta at Bethel Congregational United Church of Christ on June 28 to an all white audience. The sermon was begun with a reading of the Good Samaritan story, and a quote from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The text continues: […]
The 2015-2016 Youth Non-Violence Initiative The 2015-16 cohort of the Youth Non-Violence program traveled to Washington, D. C. this month. Fourteen youth, who were accompanied by Pastor Camp and their chaperones, were able to make this journey. They spent two days in D.C. studying and discussing past and current war, violence and peace-making events. The […]
On Views of Race and Inequality, Blacks and Whites Are Worlds Apart About four-in-ten blacks are doubtful that the U.S. will ever achieve racial equality Almost eight years after Barack Obama’s election as the nation’s first black president –an event that engendered a sense of optimism among many Americans about the future of […]
Labels like “Felon” Are an Unfair Life Sentence Lately, the Obama Administration and others on the local level have come to recognize that the words used to describe those who have offended against society, the vocabulary of incarceration, matter. The way we discuss people can interfere with their ability to reintegrate into society. The demands […]
🌟Mother’s Day Community Service Project🌟 Hartford Girl Scout Troop 10003 has partnered with My Sister’s Place in Hartford to recognize the 26 women in the program on Mother’s Day. This was a very worthwhile and humbling project, where we continued to teach our Girl Scouts about the importance of community involvement, giving back, […]
photo credit: emilycheath.com Rev. Emily C. Heath Clergy, United Church of Christ My wife and I have a joke. We tell it when we are out in public, at an airport or a restaurant or concert, and I need to use the bathroom. When I stand up to find a restroom I say to her, […]
When Christians Won’t Say #BlackLivesMatter Kevin Wright Kevin Wright currently serves as the Minister of Education at The Riverside Church in the City of New York …[M]any Christians hesitate or refuse to say #BlackLivesMatter when one would think that their affinity for a marginalized Jewish man who preached a message of good news for the […]
Do you know about the Malta House of Care? They provide free medical care for the uninsured. They have a mobile medical unit which travels on a set schedule around Hartford. for information click on link above or call 860-725-0171. Mondays from 1 – 5PM Sacred Heart Church, 49 Winthrop St., corner of Winthrop and […]