I never wanted to be like my mother. My mother stayed for more than 40 years in a marriage that broke her heart. She admits now that she was afraid. She married in the late fifties, when women couldn’t even have a bank account in their name. She was a teacher and worked to put […]
My Sobriety and My Sin
“… And lately I wonder if Christians aren’t the most miserable of addicts–and if the fact of our faith itself isn’t part of the reason. After all, aren’t we supposed to be new creations in Christ, freed from the power of sin? Because we tend to think of addiction this way—strictly as a moral failing—we try […]
