Sacred Shelter
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Author | : Susan Celia Greenfield |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2018-12-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0823281213 |
An inside look at an interfaith program for the homeless in New York City, including in-depth stories of those who have graduated and made new lives. In a metropolis like New York, homelessness can blend into the urban landscape. For Susan Greenfield, however, New York is the place where a community of resilient, remarkable individuals is yearning for a voice. Sacred Shelter follows the lives of thirteen formerly homeless people, all of whom have graduated from an interfaith life skills program for current and former homeless individuals in the city. Through interviews, these individuals share traumas from their youth, their experience with homelessness, and the healing they’ve discovered through community and faith. Edna Humphrey talks about losing her grandparents, father, and sister to illness, accident, and abuse. Lisa Sperber discusses her bipolar disorder and her whiteness. Dennis Barton speaks about his unconventional path to becoming a first-generation college student and his journey to reconnect with his family. The memoirists share stories about youth, family, jobs, and love. They describe their experiences with racism, mental illness, sexual assault, and domestic violence. Each of the thirteen storytellers honestly expresses his or her broken-heartedness and how finding community and faith gave them hope to carry on. Interspersed are reflections from program directors, clerics, mentors, and volunteers, including the cofounder of the program. While Sacred Shelter does not tackle the socioeconomic conditions and inequities that cause homelessness, it provides a voice for a demographic group that continues to suffer from systemic injustice and marginalization.
Author | : Laurine Morrison Meyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780738705859 |
Presents an overview of Western religion and folk traditions regarding home protection, purification, and sanctity, as well as the four archetypal design styles and how to combine them with the reader's unique style to create a space that nourishes the soul.
Author | : Neil Craton M.D. |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2018-10-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1525531379 |
SOMETIMES THE WORLD SEEMS LIKE A VERY DARK PLACE. In this angry world, I have seen a glimpse of light. I have seen kindness, love and hope at a homeless shelter. Siloam Mission is named after a pool where, in Biblical times, Jesus healed a blind man. In this tradition, the Mission has a medical clinic, and I have had the privilege of working there. The homeless men and women I have met at Siloam have taught me profound lessons about perseverance through suffering, expressing joy in dire circumstances, and the rewards of service to those in need. I want to share those lessons with you.
Author | : Salman Rushdie |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Susan J. Dunlap |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1506471560 |
Susan J. Dunlap offers the theological fruits of time spent working as a chaplain with people without homes. After depicting the local history of her small southern city, she describes the prayer service she co-leads in a homeless shelter. Clients offer words of faith and encouragement that take the form of prayer, sayings, testimony, song, and short sermons. Dunlap describes both these forms of expression and their theological content. She asserts that these forms and beliefs are a means of survival and resistance in a hostile world. The ways they serve these purposes are further demonstrated in life stories told as testimonies, incorporating scripture, sayings, oral tradition, and popular culture. Dunlap concludes that white supremacy and neoliberalism have produced the problem of homelessness in America and are forms of idolatry. The faith and practices shared at the shelter are spiritual and theological resources for people in the grip of and seeking freedom from this idolatry. Claiming that only God can free us from bondage to idolatry and that to draw close to the poor is to draw close to God, Dunlap calls for proximity to people living without homes who are practicing their faith amid poverty.
Author | : Elisabeth Elliot |
Publisher | : Hendrickson Publishers |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1598562495 |
"Shadow of the Almighty" is the bestselling account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Huaorani Indians in Ecuador. "Elizabeth Elliot's account is more than inspirational reading, it belongs to the very heartbeat of evangelic witness"--"Christianity Today."
Author | : John Kitto |
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Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1844 |
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Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations |
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Author | : Robert S. Ogilvie |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004-06-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780253110206 |
"This is a major contribution to the literature on social participation and voluntary action. It is the first systematic ethnographic study I know that treats volunteers and the institutions they create." -- John Van Til, author of Growing Civil Society "Students and faculty interested in the issue of homelessness will find the book instructive... Recommended." -- Choice Why do people volunteer, and what motivates them to stick with it? How do local organizations create community? How does voluntary participation foster moral development in volunteers to create a better citizenry? In this fascinating study of volunteers at the Partnership for the Homeless in New York City, Robert S. Ogilvie provides bold and engaging answers to these questions. He describes how volunteer programs such as the Partnership generate ethical development in and among participants and how the Partnership's volunteers have made it such a continued success since the early 1980s. Ogilvie's examination of voluntarism suggests that the American ethic is essential for sustaining community life and to the future well-being of a democratic society.
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Total Pages | : 894 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations |
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