In 1995 I participated as a teacher in a pastors’ conference hosted by Ukrainian Baptists in Kiev. My two weeks there was my first experience interacting and teaching through a translator. Helen was one of our most dedicated translators. She was a young lady, twenty-something at the time, who had grown up at the conclusion of the Soviet occupation of her homeland. She was smart, engaging, and aspired to work in international politics. And she…
According to the website areavibes.com, the crime rate in San Francisco, CA, is “151% higher than the national average. For every 100,000 people, there are 18.86 daily crimes that occur in San Francisco. . . .In San Francisco you have a 1 in 15 chance of becoming a victim of any crime.” Yet, in August city officials decided to sanitize language referring to criminals. The Board of Supervisors is purging the city’s vocabulary of words…