![]() William Newbrander’s review of All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease and Global Health, edited by Daniel O’Neill and Beth Snodderly. Gorske comments, these books, “have more lifesaving, health and healing potential than anything else I have read,” except the Bible. The first is a review by Arnold Gorske of a two-volume handbook entitled Health Promoting Churches, published by the World Council of Churches and authored and edited by Dr. In pursuance of that advice, this issue has two book reviews that we think deserve the attention of readers. One of the more meaningful ones was “readmorebooks”. Personal travel gives me opportunity for access to Wi-Fi networks in homes of family and friends and thus acquaintance with creative SSID labels. Syeda Saniya Zehra and Elizabeth Schwaiger from Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan, provide evidence of a unique advantages of attachment to God and a collectivist family culture on reducing perceived stress, among Christians who are a minority of the country’s population. Jorge de Andres-Sanchez with his colleagues from Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Catalonia, Spain, find that belonging to a religious community together with an intact family structure afford protection against unhealthy tobacco and cannabis use. Two original research articles are included in this issue. As a foretaste of that, this end-of-year issue has a commentary by Professor Steffen Flessa on Vaccination Against COVID-19 as a Christian Duty? A Risk-Analytic Approach He analyzes the decision-making process for getting vaccinated, a process that involves probabilities and risk-analysis, as well as consideration of the greater good. The journal editors have issued a call for papers on Vaccinations and Christian Social Responsibility which we anticipate publishing early in 2022. The editors see the journal as a way to join this understanding with a vision of health for all nations. The Christian understanding of humans, made in the image of God and called to steward the creation, is a fundamental basis for this unity. ![]() In fact, health in a global sense is testimony to the unity of the human race at a time when fractionation is a strategy for political hegemony. At the beginning hardly anyone would have predicted that global health would become first in the minds of the majority of the earth’s population or that an infectious calamity would become the focus of global attention. This issue completes eight years of publishing the Christian Journal for Global Health. Global health, coronavirus pandemia, vaccines, book reviews, unity Abstract Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases He started the Congregation Mishkahn Nachamu, which means tabernacle of comfort, and simultaneously leads that and the First Congregational Church of Litchfield.Editor, Christian Journal for Global Health, Global Health Consulting, Oliveira is a Messianic rabbi who shares the Christian belief that Jesus is the Messiah. "I was asked to blow the shofar as part of the ceremony," the rabbi said. 15, and concluded at sundown Sunday, Sept. Rosh Hashanah began at sundown Friday, Sept. ![]() Rabbi Peter Oliveira, pastor of the Litchfield church, brought a shofar, a type of horn that is blown during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur at Jewish services. Mary's, Northwest Hills Community Church, Iglesia Pentecostal, Friendship Baptist Church, Litchfield Congregational Church and others sang and prayed together, accompanied by a live band from the Torrington church with guitars, a keyboard and drums. In the days before the ceremony, some residents took to social media and objected to the city allowing the flag to fly and questioned its motives.īut on Saturday, there were no objections as church members from St. "We are here for the city, the state and the nation," he said. Steve Darr of the First Congregational Church of Torrington. The Christian flag, with a white ground and a simple cross, was raised to show unity, according to the Rev.
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