Post Tagged with: "homeless"
The Banishment of Agape
Across our nation a war is brewing against charity. New state and local regulations discourage volunteer groups from street feeding the homeless and destitute. The erosion of charity is a sign of our “humanitarian age”.
Unto Christ
My heart aches for those I see: a man shuffling down the street pushing the shopping cart of all he owns under the threat of Alabama’s snowy skies. The homeless are all suffering in some way—or running, even from help.
On Pilgrimage: Giving the Addict His Due
If we say that any earthly good that has been entrusted to our stewardship may be held back from another because we believe that we deserve to keep it, we dishonour GOD. In fact, we make ourselves gods by denying another what we have in surplus, and we do so to our own detriment.
Where Are the Poor?
What can we do, what is to be done? First of all, we can admit that our so-called American way of life has meant great inequalities, and that there does indeed exist a great mass of poor and unemployed people who are in need of help in this country as well as abroad. We need to study ways to change the social order.