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He Has A Name

I can’t remember his name now, it was one of those not very unusual names, Tom, or Ron or Mike, but the man holding the “Will work for Food”  sign on the side of the road has a name. He was in our drug ...
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The Slightest Taste of Homelessness

I’m a little annoyed with Groupon. You get caught up in these daily deals, and you throw down before you think things through. So here I am, sitting around miles from my house, waiting four hours for my deep...
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Find Your Own Calcutta

She was small in stature but she stood head and shoulders above the rest of us.  Her life and her message affected the way we view the poor and highly impacted the ways in which we live our lives.  She called u...
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Meeting Jesus in the Poor

In Luke 16:19-31, we read the story that Jesus told about a certain rich man and a poor man named Lazarus who had lain suffering with hunger and a diseased body just outside of the rich man’s house.  Jesus tel...