The Faith Hour

The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most tumultuous years, ever. Political backtracking made the coronavirus a public health threat to Americans, and a debacle for an incumbent president, who otherwise would have won re-election. But, the economic fall-out from the pandemic of the coronavirus has left some Americans, homeless and jobless, widened the wealth gap, systemic racism in...

Top Congressional Democrats are calling for a federal investigation after a nurse who worked at an immigration detention center in Georgia filed a whistleblower complaint alleging a lack of medical care and unsafe work practices that facilitated the spread of Covid-19. She also says that immigrant women received questionable hysterectomies, an allegation that lawmakers seized on in statements issu...

More than 500 firefighters are battling the El Dorado blaze east of San Bernardino, California. More than 3,000 residents of several communities in the area, have been ordered to evacuate as more than 7,000 acres of land, burn. The fire is only five per cent contained. Officials point to the smoke generated by a pyrotechnic device used during a gender reveal party as the cause of the blaze. Gender...

Centuries of Christian tradition are hotly debated as to whether Jesus’ bachelorhood was a reality or fiction. Jesus’ bachelorhood formed the basis for priestly celibacy and His all male apostolic group provides justification for the exclusion of women from church leadership positions. But the so-called ancient papyrus that details jesus’ alleged marriage-a-papryus discovered by a mysterious group...

America is burning. Wildfires on the west coast is a threat to life and property. Racial unrest from coast-to-coast and the government is campaigning instead of addressing climate change that has now become climate crisis,and systemic racism which has given us the Summer of Strife. As we head into Fall, the coronavirus is fast on our heels and is posing a health threat to those on the west coast;...

Child Protection System scans file-sharing networks and chat rooms to find computers that are downloading photos and videos depicting the sexual abuse of prepubescent children. The software helps establish the probable cause needed to get a search warrant. The tool helps police focus on the most persistent offenders and offers a way to quickly crack down on an illegal industry that has proved resi...

“I Can’t Breathe” were George Floyd’s last words. Doctors writing in the New England Journal of Medicine are using those same words as a refrain to lay out how systemic racism has negatively impacted the health of Black Americans and how this is the moment to change it. Black doctors are now calling on health-care systems to take the lead in advocating against police brutality, to diversify their...

A consistent subset of people fatally shot by police are women. Since 2015, police have fatally shot 250 women. Like Breonna Taylor 89 of them were killed at homes or residences where they sometimes stayed. The names of these women are often not well known as the men, but their deaths raise the same questions about the use of deadly force by police. Although Black women only account for 13 per cen...

With so much going on, protests, systemic racism, Christian leaders caught with their pants down, we are in a unique position. We need a fast, maybe God will see our fast and answer our prayers for solutions to the issues facing us.

A Professor of African and Latin American studies who portrayed herself as Black has now revealed she has been lying. Jessica A. Krug, an Associate Professor at George Washington University, has written extensively about Africa, Latin America, the diaspora and identity, all while claiming her own Black and Latina heritage. But in an article published on Medium.com on Thursday, Krug revealed the tr...

Nearly 60 per cent of the cases of missing and Murdered Native-American women are homicides, and 31 per cent involve girls 18 and younger, according to data analyzed by the Sovereign Bodies Institute. Nearly three-quarters of the cases had victims who were living within the foster care system when they went missing. The vast majority of cases in the U.S. remain unsolved. Advocates point to the lac...

According to a recent study in the journal Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences,the planet could see a greater temperature increase in the next 50 years than it did in the last 6,000 years combined.. By 2070, scientists predict that the kind of extremely hot zones, like in the Sahara (that now cover less than 1 per cent of the earth’s land surface), could cover nearly a fifth of the land...

A record- breaking 197 people in Maricopa County, Arizona died from heat-related causes in 2019 alone. So far in 2020, the Maricopa County Health Department has confirmed 30 heat-related deaths, while investigating an additional 243. Over the past 30 years, heat has accounted for more fatalities on average than any other weather-related disaster in the U.S., according to the National Weather Servi...

In an age of uncertainty, after race wars, and the shooting of unarmed protesters, the March on Washington, a Republican convention that looked the haves and the haves not, we find ourselves asking, what’s coming?

The Rev. Stricjavvar ‘Strick’ Strickland, of Kalamazoo’s Second Baptist Church, has been charged with 11 felonies connected to alleged incidents spanning from August 1,2015 to August 31,2018, according to a probable cause affidavit filed last week in Kalamazoo District Court. The Rev. Is accused of sexually assaulting four male victims between the ages of 15 and 17 by paying said boys to have sex...

Giancarlo Granda, a business parameter of Jerry Falwell Jr, aka ‘the poolboy’ has come forward to say he had a years long relationship involving Falwell’s wife and the evangelical leader himself. Jerry Falwell, Jr is a staunch Trump supporter, and, until today, was the President of Liberty University, a private evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia. Mr. Falwell is a staunch criti...

There is a lot going on. Political leaders are absent of leadership, homelessness is on the rise across the country as evictions post-pandemic, take effect, no job prospects for many, and we learned this week that the postal service transports live chicks for rural agricultural producers, and have been doing so since 1918. But they want to shutter the postal service. Will Jesus, please take the wh...

The ERA, initially drafted by women’s suffragist, Alice Paul in 1923, was finally approved by a Democratic-led congress in 1972. But the Amendment, which was first written only two years after white women were granted the right to vote, fell just three states shy of being officially added to the Constitution- and millions of Black women, women of color and working class women did not get the prote...

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. And imitation of Black women’s style is exactly what one sees when they open their Instagram app, or turn on their TV to the latest music video, or flip through a magazine. But being placed on such a high pedestal of admiration is dangerous, because when you deify someone, you strip them of their humanity- and strip yourself of any obligation to resp...

Dr. Monica Williams, an associate professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa who focuses on the impact of racial trauma on people of color, has developed the TSDS or Trauma Symptoms of Discrimination Scale-, a tool for measuring anxiety-related trauma symptoms due to racial discrimination. True enough, people of color, Black women in particular, suffer from traumatization du...

These are trying times. The news of the day leave us feeling dispirited and uncertain. But the Lord promises in His Word, that if we look to Him, He will sustain us, despite plagues, disease, economic turndowns, we have to accept that God is in control, despite who seems to be holding the wheel. We take comfort from the Scriptures, that tell us in Psalm 100, that His truth endures to all generatio...

August 2020. Who would have thought that America, would be handling an out-of-control virus, despite having the resources to curb it, and a president and political leadership, seemingly oblivious to the people’s cries. In the midst of a pandemic, that landed on our shores, we find large segments of the American population, jobless and homeless. Thirty four million people set to be evicted as of Au...

What will people do? Millions of Americans who lost jobs due to the pandemic, now face housing uncertainty as unemployment benefits approved by Congress is about to run out. Some conservative activists think unemployed Americans should not receive benefits at all. Others including elected representatives believe that the $600 weekly benefit included in the Cares Act should be reduced to $200. What...

We live in times that demand answers from our leaders. Where there is a deficiency of leadership, we turn to the ultimate One, God. He points us to the Scriptures in Proverbs :3- It exhorts that in times of difficulty, Trust in Him.

Insurance Companies are quietly influencing change in police departments around the country. It’s the way in which police who are authorized by cities, to operate. Police Departments must carry liability insurance, so how does the insurance company influence change? Large payouts from lawsuits result in a loss for the insurer, therefore they send consultants who advise police departments, on how t...