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Dear Rachael, This past week, the Houston Chronicle published a three-part series on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention. In response, you asked: “Pastors, where were you? When we were pleading for you to speak up against your peers or the leaders your support props up, where were you?” This. So many tears, so…
In Part 1, of this three-part series, guest author Lucy Crabtree shared her experience with hearing loss and struggle to find a place in the local church. In Part 2, she offered practical advice for loving your neighbors in the hearing loss community. This third and final installment features practical advice for including the hearing…
In Part 1, of this three-part series, guest author Lucy Crabtree shared her experience with hearing loss and struggle to find a place in the local church. In this second post, she offers practical advice for loving your neighbors in the hearing loss community. — Part 2 — As I concluded in Part 1, we…
Last October, I posted the following tweet, in which I used the term “deaf and dumb” in proximity with being cognitively impaired: One of my followers, Lucy Crabtree, sent me a kind private message in response. She informed me of how the phrase has been used historically. She also explained why it can be offensive…
“Well, at least this sort of thing is rare,” a friend remarked after a conflict that went south. My mind (which, if illustrated, would look a bit like a conspiracy theorist’s wall with pieces of string connecting a thousand unrelated newspaper clippings and excerpts from The Catcher in the Rye) immediately associated “rare” with steak….