Infant Mortality: How social support for mothers can reduce stress and improve infant health and survival rates among African American and Latina women and their children The following is an interview with the Rev. Dr. Shirley Gwendolyn Eloby Fleming, Co-Director of The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation and Director of Faith Health Promotion Read More
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A Vacation Time out: A Season for Reflective, Balanced Leadership
“There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot, . . . a time to be silent” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, 7 NIV Bible) In a world that is constantly speeding up Read More
What’s love got to do with it?
Dylann Roof, State Senator Pinckney, and the challenge for faith communities to become more “loving” and honest places of social transformation As I prepared to write about the need for faith communities and religious institutions to take seriously their role in affirming individuals and building a network of “loving” communities, a news bulletin flashed across the Read More
Take it to Heart
Some of you reading this blog may have made a New Year’s resolution and for many of you it might have been to lose weight, get in better shape or perhaps both. As we approach the end of January, some of you are doing well, some are having a hard time, and still others have Read More
