The Plague in Our House: A Sermon on the Opioid Epidemic
Friends, the proverbial house, our community, is not only stricken with a plague of drug and opioid abuse – it is on fire.
Friends, the proverbial house, our community, is not only stricken with a plague of drug and opioid abuse – it is on fire.
Over 2 million incarcerated people live in our nation’s prisons and jails, more than any other country in the entire world. Our prison population has increased 500% since 1977 and 20% of prisoners in the U.S.
My involvement with Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC) began before the organization was officially formed.
Each year at this time when we begin the third portion of the Torah, we reunite with biblical Abraham, and I am transported to a panel discussion in which I learned perhaps the deepest value of his character.