COLORADO SPRINGS – The crisp, rainy day did not deter the 25 or so people hurrying inside Midtown Barbershop, but only a few wanted haircuts. It was September 10th, National Suicide Prevention Day 2022, and in this Black neighborhood, the … Continue reading Where Can Black Men Receive Mental Health Support? At Their Local Barbershop
If there were any question about the connection between politics and public health, the recent overturning of Roe v Wade and the decision’s subsequent effect on further restricting abortion rights in at least 14 states should put that question to … Continue reading The Politics of Public Health
Record-breaking temperatures across the world this summer serve as a harsh reminder, along g with other climate-related weather events such as flooding over vast portions of the continental U.S. and a longer and more active hurricane season, that phenomena once … Continue reading Climate Change Does Not Pose an Equal Opportunity Threat
The Prince of Third Ward Holman Street Baptist Church (HSBC) is located in the Historic Third Ward of Houston Texas. It is the church where I experienced a spiritual awakening and received my call to the Ministry over 40 years … Continue reading Covered by the Blood; Spiritual Determinants of Health vs The Social Detriment to Health
The storm is passing over arrangement by Barbara Baker begins with the words, “Have courage my soul, and let us journey on. Though the night is dark, and I am far from home. Thanks be to God, the morning light … Continue reading The Storm Is Passing Over
Do Black Lives Matter in America? If they truly mattered, would we continue to see the disparities that we do such as the infant mortality rate being comparable to third world nations? African American women’s maternal death is disproportionately high … Continue reading Health Disparities and the Eye of the Storm
If we’re God’s poetry (Ephesians 2:10). . . What does it mean to be created in the image of God? How does that inform the way we live and inspire the ways we treat each other? “The true alchemists do … Continue reading Anthropoetics: Embodiment, Equality, Environment
The September Theme is “The Eye of the Storm.” The month of September is known as the peak of hurricane season. We, too, have entered a focal point in the conversation of systemic racism. Covid 19 exposed horrendous health discrepancies (Social Determinants of Health.) As we seem … Continue reading The Eye of The Storm
Our collective wholeness includes health equity Shalom is a Hebrew word often translated to the English word: peace. But according to Dr. Al Tizon, in his book Transformation after Lausanne: Radical Evangelical Mission in Global-Local Perspective, “Only a shallow translation … Continue reading Covid and Shalom
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