Last week’s column in The StarPhoenix was an interesting one for me. I wrote on the absurd decision of Alberta Health Services to stop giving out crack pipes to addicts while still giving out needles and in the process, came out strongly for harm reduction for a variety of theological reasons. It was the harshest [...]
Scott Williams
Why I Help Addicts Shoot Up
Great article in Christian Week about Insite Something about seeing people at their lowest and most desperate, half-clothed from turning tricks for drugs while hating themselves for it, opens into a profound level of intimacy. I am blessed to enter the darkest place of people whose sins are far more public than those of the [...]
But will I respect you in the morning?
Scott is writing about the culture of evangelical clergy and how it differs from almost every other job in the world. This comment was as good as the post. guilt was more what I felt going on those "junkets". I remember skipping a breakfast buffet that was being paid by the church. we had 10min [...]
