Throughout the nation’s history, the faith community has played a catalytic and sometimes central role in the nation’s most seismic changes – abolition of slavery, women’s right to vote and the Civil Rights Movement led by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The faith community is again called into the breach, positioning itself between […]

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors held a community forum Tuesday morning at 7:30 Pacific time.  I watched it live. So poignant and so appalling.  Board Chair James Ramos spoke of  “…sadness and anger…support for victims” and pledged “safety for all employees.”  Supervisor Lovinggood spoke of “seamless continuation of services” and a “focus on […]

My life was a mess – dad in jail, no job, nobody to turn to, everything going wrong, I couldn’t manage anything and here I had this baby coming. I was going to make a mess of another life. ~ Nafessa, with Noah age 1, on her lap at meeting at Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) […]