A Nurse’s Poem

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Highlighting Summer…

and recalling the light of living things in winter:

En Route

Implicit racial bias and the town gown

…pulling this highly recommended book down off my shelf to read again, in light of recent news events and necessary, valuable public outrage concerning the activities of a Harvard Humanitarian Initiative employee last week.

City Mayor highlights what he hopes will happen next for this community-and more about why it matters.

Improving Population Health: Can Faith Groups Help?

Yes, According to this Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, held in Raleigh, North Carolina, in March 2018.
Learn more about the workshop and download a free pdf of the 9-page report

Bibliography for Syriac Christian Studies

Looking up something I thought was obscure, this site gave me 400+ references!
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Extreme Poverty: Status Quo in the USA

“The United States is a land of stark contrasts…its immense wealth and expertise stand in shocking contrast with the conditions in which vast numbers of its citizens live. About 40 million live in poverty, 18.5 million in extreme poverty, and 5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty…”

Philip Alston, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights on his Mission to the United States of America, United Nations General Assembly, A/HRC/38/33/Add.1, May 4, 2018. The report was presented at the 38th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, 18 June-6 July 2018. Read the full report here.

Read more about the report, responses to date, and the need for longterm, low key, sensible and consistent action here.