An Important Update from Andrew
What is my best use? I have wrestled with this question since June 24, 2022 and the Dobbs decision that ultimately overturned Roe. When I took the role of Executive Director at HOPE back in [...]
A Helpful Framework
I have been thinking a lot lately about my motivation and my engagement in culture, in politics, and in the greater discussion surrounding life and abortion. What drives my action and/or inaction? As I have [...]
A Hero, a Villain, or a Ghost
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men… Frederick Douglass I recently came across this quote from Frederick Douglass and was amazed at the simple, yet profound truth these few words [...]
The I’m For’s
This past Sunday, Jan 22, 2023, would have been the 50th anniversary of the Roe decision. This anniversary, however, never came to be because of June 24, 2022 and the reversal of the Roe decision. [...]
Here I Stand
Over the past few months I have been intentional with my communication to you on the goings on in our society, culture, and political realities surrounding the abortion and life issue in light of the [...]
Big Tech Attacks on Pregnancy Centers
I wanted to make you aware of a recent trend in tech to target, misinform, and malign organizations like HOPE. This trend is concerning but it is not surprising. Over the past few months, life-affirming [...]
Abortion Searches Are Up Across Tennessee
We have spent the last year looking inward at our practices and outward at our patients trying to decide how we can better reach those in our city that are in vulnerable situations facing unplanned [...]
HOPE in 2020
Anyone else tired of hearing phrases like; we must pivot, a new normal, adapt, virtual, put your mask on, take your mask off, let me take your temperature, or it’s been a strange year? Yea, [...]
The Hard Stuff
The old me would have seen these riots and protests through the lens of politics. What will they mean for the elections coming up both locally and nationally? Will this help my team or not? [...]