by Jenny Sturgis | Feb 19, 2023 | Diversity and Justice Awareness
Before Samuel Kountz scrubbed in for a landmark surgical procedure in 1961, there was only one type of person who could possibly receive a transplanted kidney: a person with an identical twin. Kountz opened the door to wider transplant options by pioneering the use of...
by Jenny Sturgis | Feb 18, 2023 | Diversity and Justice Awareness
Dr. Leonidas H. Berry (1902 – 1995) began his career when healthcare was segregated in America. He was a gastroenterologist at the Black owned and operated Provident Hospital in Chicago, the same hospital Daniel Hale Williams opened, which you read about last week!...
by Jenny Sturgis | Feb 17, 2023 | Diversity and Justice Awareness
Typically, the stab wound that James Cornish received in his chest in Chicago in 1893 would have been fatal. But not this time, because Cornish had been rushed to Provident Hospital, where surgeon Daniel Hale Williams was on duty, ready to make history. Operating...
by Jenny Sturgis | Feb 16, 2023 | Diversity and Justice Awareness
In 1976, during our nation’s bicentennial year celebration, President Gerald R. Ford challenged Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every endeavor throughout our history.” Since then, the United...
by Jenny Sturgis | Feb 14, 2023 | Sermons
People Jesus Met Along the Way: The Pharisees by Rev. L. John Gable http://tabpres.org/wp-content/sermons/230212.mp3 People Jesus Met Along the Way: The Pharisees by Rev. L. John GableFebruary 12, 2023 We have been talking recently about people Jesus met along the way...
