On Faith and Housing Justice

Many of us, understandably so, have an image in our minds of unhoused individuals as people sleeping and/or hanging out on city streets, often seeming unclean or in tattered clothing, sometimes approaching us asking for money or food

I, Thou, and Homelessness

“At the root of homelessness is poverty and the systems that hold it in place. Poverty is a form of segregation and othering.”–D. Simmons

The Life of a Traveler

By Martti C. Peeples The year was 2014. I had spent the weekend at Oprah Winfrey’s “Live Your Best Life” tour. Oprah had an exercise in the booklet we received. One of the exercises

Think ‘Bout It

I lost my grandmother in April, I graduated in June, and I started my first college class in October. The month of April through now has been, hands down the worst few months I’ve experienced thus far in my 17 years of life.