Finding Hope While Changing Paradigms

Finding Hope While Changing Paradigms

Breaking through rocky soil to expose myths is the work of historians. Or experienced psychiatric nurse-writers like myself. I think like a psychiatric nurse in most everything of importance that I do. As slow as any detective, I like digging down to the roots of...
The Danger of Tampering with History

The Danger of Tampering with History

In less than three minutes I sank from jubilation into the depths of despair. The message from attorney and outstanding SBC advocate Rachael Denhollander, encased in a photo atop the May 24 article from Religious News Service said almost all that was needed, less than...
The Time for Pious Words is Over

The Time for Pious Words is Over

At the end of each message sent from my personal email account is a quote from South African liberation theologian Allan Boesak that I have appropriated for the title of this column. Boesak’s statement, “The Time for Pious Words is Over,” is part of the title of...
SBC Report Agonizing, Sickening and Convicting

SBC Report Agonizing, Sickening and Convicting

Reading the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sexual Abuse Task Force report since its release this past Sunday afternoon has been an agonizing and sickening exercise. Engaging the report, and consuming raw details of how broken this institution is, has almost been more...