Author: wordhabit

It’s the last day of the year and I have many regrets. I’ll fill your eyes with none of them, at least not in full detail. Why bother? They’re in the past.  Yet I bring them up because I’ve grown up with the message that we shouldn’t have regrets and, well, I think that’s unrealistic….

My friend and fellow campus minister, Heather, and I often joke about the things we do in our jobs that Seminary didn’t teach us. These things typically fall into the “pesky” box. We’d rather ignore them, delegate them, toss them out the window…but can’t. Today another such thing fell into my lap. I suppose I…

Just heard a news headline about other states wanting to adopt a TN law that makes it possible to charge as criminals mothers who birth a drug-dependent baby. Many of these mothers aren’t getting prenatal care… So what happens to these mothers and what happens to their babies? Whether they choose jail time or rehab,…

I haven’t anything brilliant to say. I’m simply thinking about how vastly different this life is from the place I currently call home.  Sometimes I wonder what growing up here would have looked like. Would we have stayed in South London or moved out? Would these streets be familiar to me? Would I be married…