Ephesians 6:5-7 tells us, “Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men.”
Here we are again to remind you the pandemic is not over … no matter how many of us wish it was. It should go without saying that this pandemic can’t be wished away.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of having access to affordable health care. But in Kansas, comprehensive insurance coverage remains out of reach for more than 139,000 low-income adults that could be insured through Medicaid.
This past week has been a time of reflection with the passing of Sen. Bob Dole.
When I could no longer make memories with dad, I was able to help him remember everything and everyone he loved in his life, even if just for a few moments. I brought dad photo albums to his home and we’d often look through the pages, talking about our family.
It has been more than a year since I watched Derek Chauvin murder George Floyd. Of the many haunting moments from that video, it still strikes me that as Floyd and witnesses pleaded with Chauvin to stop, the then-officer and now convicted murderer looked directly into bystanders’ cameras and smirked. That disquieting, macabre smile reflected a murderer certain that he would escape accountability.
In Part 3 of “The Beatles: Get Back,” as the band huddles on the floor of the studio control room with the people closest to them, Paul McCartney starts (yet again) to fret: The Beatles are getting stale making one album after another; his (and their) singing is not up to his standards; they haven’t even rehearsed some of their songs; he wants fun and a changed environment – a payoff, someone suggests.
As the cousin of Emmett Till, I was disappointed by the Department of Justice decision last week to close the investigation into his death. In 1955, at the age of 14, while visiting family in Mississippi, Emmett was dragged out of bed, tortured and killed by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam. They then dumped his body in a river. All of this over allegations that he flirted with a white woman.
“Within 24 hours of receiving authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, we’ll be shipping millions of safe and effective vaccines to the American people.” This was the promise General Gus Perna, then the head of the Army’s Material Command and leader of Operation Warp Speed’s vaccine distribution effort, made to the American people months before that authorization was granted.
Nobody wants a repeat of last year’s postal delivery delays during the holidays, especially not my fellow postal workers. After working as a postal clerk for 30 years, I’m now the elected president of an American Postal Workers Union local in Springfield, Massachusetts.