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Between November 1 and December 31, Global Ministries will share stories of transformational mission work and the ways financial gifts through the Advance impact lives. With the help of three grants from UMCOR, the people of Beirut, Lebanon, are…

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The poorest communities have been hit hardest during the Covid-19 pandemic. BBC analysis shows the death rate from all causes between April and June this year in the most deprived areas was nearly double that of deaths in the least deprived parts…

As I mentioned yesterday on this blog, this year has two categories of awards – the 2020 Books of the Year and the Book Awards, which are divided into disciplines. Again, these are based on books that came my way and that I have read. (By…

PATTI LABELLE'S superpower is a spellbinding scream — a refined shriek, really — that makes hairs stand at attention, bones shiver and spines twist. It was 1975 when I first heard it. I was 10, in my parents' South Bronx tenement…