Guest column: The danger of learning to live with danger
Bobby Baker
Dr. Bobby Baker is chief of community engagement for Christ Community Health Services, which works to fulfill the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of the underserved, the uninsured and the homeless.
To become desensitized to the dangers around us would be to lose sight of hope for healing.
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