Posts Tagged ‘Fall 2025’

We are not reading as we used to. Does it matter? Before the arrival of television and modern media, reading books from beginning to end was a major activity both for learning and relaxation. Nowadays most people reading on the internet have an attention span of five to seven minutes.

In February 2023, the state of Tennessee passed Senate Bill 1, prohibiting the use of “medical procedures for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identities.”

Our goal is simple: to keep reminding Christian healthcare professionals their faith doesn’t just belong in their hearts and heads, but it belongs in every patient, staff, colleague interaction, as well as every ethical decision and how they educate and equip themselves. As this community grows, our prayer is that more believers will be strengthened, encouraged and inspired to live out their faith with boldness wherever God has placed them, and that several will choose to walk alongside us by becoming part of the CMDA family because we are stronger together.

In the Scriptures, we see numerous examples of Jesus using touch to demonstrate His message to humankind and to love us. He gathered children into His arms, restored health by a touch and healed lepers, the blind and the lame. He even allowed touch to help Thomas believe: “Then He said to Thomas, ‘Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing’” (John 20:27, NASB 1995).