The Faith Hour with Harriet Cammock

The coronavirus pandemic has brought supply chains to the forefront, whereas previously, many were accustomed to it running in the background of everyday life. But for supply chain leaders, the pandemic has shifted focus from business as usual to crisis management, and planning for more robust supply chains in the future.

The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most tumultuous years, ever. Political backtracking made the coronavirus a public health threat to Americans, and a debacle for an incumbent president, who otherwise would have won re-election. But, the economic fall-out from the pandemic of the coronavirus has left some Americans, homeless and jobless, widened the wealth gap, systemic racism in healthcare caused the deaths of more Black Americans this year from the coronavirus, in addition to police violence, which made American streets a public display of the march for justice and equality. What do you do? Stand Firm. Stand firmly in what you believe and what you know will happen. Good will overcome evil, systemic racism will be crushed by the power of your vote, and righteousness will return to the land.

Top Congressional Democrats are calling for a federal investigation after a nurse who worked at an immigration detention center in Georgia filed a whistleblower complaint alleging a lack of medical care and unsafe work practices that facilitated the spread of Covid-19. She also says that immigrant women received questionable hysterectomies, an allegation that lawmakers seized on in statements issued just this week. These shocking accusations come on the heels of America’s long, sordid history of performing forced hysterectomies on minority women.

More than 500 firefighters are battling the El Dorado blaze east of San Bernardino, California. More than 3,000 residents of several communities in the area, have been ordered to evacuate as more than 7,000 acres of land, burn. The fire is only five per cent contained. Officials point to the smoke generated by a pyrotechnic device used during a gender reveal party as the cause of the blaze. Gender reveal parties, held during pregnancy to unveil the sex of the expected child, are sometimes announced by pink or blue smoke fireworks. With thousands of people now facing imminent homelessness, the relevance of these gender reveal parties are now being called into question.

Centuries of Christian tradition are hotly debated as to whether Jesus’ bachelorhood was a reality or fiction. Jesus’ bachelorhood formed the basis for priestly celibacy and His all male apostolic group provides justification for the exclusion of women from church leadership positions. But the so-called ancient papyrus that details jesus’ alleged marriage-a-papryus discovered by a mysterious group of individuals is being called into questions as ‘fake’.

America is burning. Wildfires on the west coast is a threat to life and property. Racial unrest from coast-to-coast and the government is campaigning instead of addressing climate change that has now become climate crisis,and systemic racism which has given us the Summer of Strife. As we head into Fall, the coronavirus is fast on our heels and is posing a health threat to those on the west coast; inundated with smoke, which makes them more susceptible to lung infections like the coronavirus.

Child Protection System scans file-sharing networks and chat rooms to find computers that are downloading photos and videos depicting the sexual abuse of prepubescent children. The software helps establish the probable cause needed to get a search warrant. The tool helps police focus on the most persistent offenders and offers a way to quickly crack down on an illegal industry that has proved resilient against law enforcement efforts. But some civil liberties experts have raised concerns about the mass surveillance enabled by the technology.

“I Can’t Breathe” were George Floyd’s last words. Doctors writing in the New England Journal of Medicine are using those same words as a refrain to lay out how systemic racism has negatively impacted the health of Black Americans and how this is the moment to change it. Black doctors are now calling on health-care systems to take the lead in advocating against police brutality, to diversify their work forces to better reflect their patient population, and to incorporate addressing racial health disparities as part of clinicians’ training.

A consistent subset of people fatally shot by police are women. Since 2015, police have fatally shot 250 women. Like Breonna Taylor 89 of them were killed at homes or residences where they sometimes stayed. The names of these women are often not well known as the men, but their deaths raise the same questions about the use of deadly force by police. Although Black women only account for 13 per cent of the female population, they account for 20 per cent of the women shot and killed and 28 per cent of the unarmed deaths.

With so much going on, protests, systemic racism, Christian leaders caught with their pants down, we are in a unique position. We need a fast, maybe God will see our fast and answer our prayers for solutions to the issues facing us.