The headline stuck in my head. “Malnourished 5-year old girl found locked in closet under stairs.” It was like a second round of mortar piercing my heart following a news story I happened to read a few weeks earlier: “Thousands of child sex abuse photos...
Gun violence is the 3rd leading cause of death for children in America, and 30,000 lives are lost each year to gun violence. Today, I’m sharing a reflection and prayer that I was asked to write for Survivor Sunday. You can also find information online on...
“The arc of a moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I have found myself in a number of discussions about the two narratives in our current political debate. Some have described it as the difference between a narrative...
The death of Trayvon Martin more than four years ago highlighted the highly-dangerous world many young people in the United States must negotiate every day. Often these cases make the headlines, and they are forgotten as new headlines emerge, or they move to the back...
On any given day, there are approximately 415,000 children in foster care in the United States. While meeting with two friends a few weeks ago, one of them mentioned a young woman with whom they had recently reconnected after a long break. This girl, Sandra...
I had the most unusual experience a summer or so ago at a camp where I met a young girl who told me she didn’t like her last name. Now, I’m not so naïve that I’ve never heard someone say such a thing. But until...