Below you'll find a list of all posts from August, 2014
A voice for positive community change.
Just over four-and-a-half years ago, I received a diagnosis of a leukemia called CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia). Some people can live for two decades or more without any problems, thus the description — chronic. But my case was different because I had a more aggressive form. A year after what …
Gary Pomerantz’s 1996 book, “Where Peachtree Meets Auburn Avenue” has provided a springboard surrounding race relations between blacks and whites here and throughout our nation. In spite of all the accounts about a city too busy to hate, racial tensions are mounting here daily. Of course, we are proud of …
My blog posting is quite late this week. I was intentionally avoiding this subject because it requires much more space than what we comfortably impose upon our readers, and to some it will be somewhat polarizing rather than unifying and uplifting. But it kept getting in the way of every …
The skies over Atlanta have been especially noisy in recent days as news helicopters hovered over two ambulances making their way from Dobbins Air Reserves to Emory University Hospital. On board were two patients from Liberia — one, a physician and the other, a missionary — each being taken to …
Original article written by: Mary Lee Talbot “People are dying to be exposed to faith in a way that builds bridges of understanding,” said the Rev. Joanna M. Adams, chaplain for Week One at Chautauqua Institution. “They want to experience religion in a hopeful way.” Adams will preach at the …
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