A home would be a place where me and my brothers and my mom could all sit down and eat supper together. There would be plenty of food and milk for all of us. After supper we would watch TV together or maybe play ball if we had a yard. Then we'd go to...

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Observers of modern homelessness often cite some of the following potential causes of...

One of the remarkable things about this year's presidential race was the absence of the poor. God knows there are plenty of them--almost 36 million by the government's last count, 4 million more than when George Bush took office. Nearly one of every...

AYEAR AGO, Horace Sibley was a retired corporate lawyer in Atlanta with plenty of free time. Then he got a phone call asking him to get involved with homelessness. Today he's an advocate who says the homeless people he meets mostly want two things:...

Some come for the haircuts and massages. Several want the free breakfast. Most need help finding housing.But thousands of homeless people across the country are showing up at events designed like career fairs to help them tap into drug treatment, mental health and welfare programs,...

Referring to people as "the homeless" implies a false sense of similarity among these people, who, in reality, have nothing more in common than their lack of permanent shelter. The Bible can be used as a justification to help the homeless and the poor.