Word on the Street

The Station Master

There’s an old street legend about the man who used to greet people when they got out of jail. “Whenever anyone got out and they didn’t have a place to go,” street folks would say, “We’d send them to the woods just beyond Old Mill Park." There they would find the...

Tired of seeing ghettos

A man stopped me outside of Micah's Thanksgiving Eve service one November. "I know your story," he said. And he began to tell me about a former USA Today reporter who left a promising journalism career to go work for Martin Luther King, Jr. When asked why he would...