Articles By: Abbie Smith

Abbie Smith is the author of Can You Keep Your Faith in College? (Multnomah, 2006) and Slow Fade, releasing in April with Reggie Joiner and Chuck Bomar. She holds degrees from Emory University (Religion, 03) and Talbot Seminary (Spiritual Formation, 09) and resides in Savannah, Georgia. For more on Abbie, check-out: http://www.conversantlife.com/blogs/abbie+smith

“Sugar to Shit” On the Way Home

Certain perks come with being in a new city and not knowing folks, like waking to an agenda-less weekend morning. If I made it to the farmers market, or a dusty aisle of the used bookstore, great, but as I departed my front step, I was determined to let twenty bucks and the wind be my compass, not...

August 24th, 2010 | Social Justice | Read More

Poor People Aren’t Stupid

We assume things about the poor, like they’re uneducated, drunk and contagious. Add a disability to the mix and you can add that they’re either a fraud, or beyond help. Kathryn is poor and in a wheelchair. Been disabled six years and three months. I asked recently how her injury happened. “How...