14 January 2010
After spending most of my life doing the opposite, I now stop the car when I see homeless people.
I was driving through Charlotte having just dropped off a friend. Shortly before I let him out of the car, I asked, “What do homeless people need?” (He’s qualified to answer this because he and [...]
27 October 2009
A pair of great articles appeared in the New York Times on Monday and Tuesday that shouldn’t be missed. As part of their “Running in the Shadows” series, the pieces combine to consider the growing epidemic of child runaways, offer a challenging perspective of why and how children and teenagers live on the streets, and [...]
18 October 2009
There is a quote that I read about two years ago and it has never left me. Even more so, this quote challenges me in a different way every time I read it. I read it again today. It comes from a story written about a girl and about hope from To Write Love on [...]
4 October 2009
The end of last month I had a real interesting week. Sunday the 27th, I faced the first day of a job I worked over two months to get into. Some friends from church had collected money to put me into lodging until my first paycheck–but the job started two weeks later [...]
18 September 2009
Great insight and advice from a dear and talented man, Wendell Parham, who at the time of writing this was homeless. I am delighted to report I recently learned he has currently found a place to stay, though it hinges on whether or not he can find sustainable work. I was fortunate enough to [...]
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