The Urban Resident

Category: Disability

  • Only as an urban resident – Ep. 1

    A prequel: Episode 1 – Lil’ Annikin Shihiem is the third out of 10 living children born to his mother. Mom started having kids at age 16. Daddies took turns fathering children while taking turns in and out of jail. At age 4, Shihiem set the curtains on fire. The firefighters came and found him…

  • Selection Bias: Statistical Integrity in Christian Community

    Originally a guest post for the Emerging Scholars Network (a ministry of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship):   One day a num­ber of con­cerned moth­ers met with the min­is­ter to express their frus­tra­tion and anger over the unseemly con­duct of a par­tic­u­lar boy in Sun­day School. They did not want their chil­dren exposed to this child and…

  • Part 2: On Hope

    After a brutal series of Christmas shifts in the ER, I had finally come home for the holidays.  My mother and I were in the kitchen, talking like we used to.  We had seen and loved the new Les Miserables film, and so I brought up an interesting question from an interview with Samantha Barks,…

  • The Divine Reversal

    [Reflection from a morning worship service] I have been spending time working with children and adults with developmental disabilities this past week.  It has been a long week, and to help me process the many emotions and things I saw, I picked up a book to read about theology and disability.  The author described the…