by Trevor Barton | Jan 8, 2025 | Feature-, Opinion
A friend I call “Big Mike” has lived on the streets for eight years. I met him at the hospital, where he had two wounds on his legs that would not heal. He had no reliable place to wash and medicate the wounds. That kind of place is tough to find on the streets. I sat...
by Craig Nash | Dec 21, 2023 | Feature-, News
At least every other year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) conducts a “point-in-time” (PIT) national count of people experiencing homelessness and presents those findings to Congress. The 2023 report released last week found a steep increase...
by Zach Dawes Jr | May 24, 2023 | Feature-, News
Homelessness in the U.S. increased for the seventh straight year, according to an annual report from the National Alliance to End Homelessness published May 16. There were 582,462 unhoused people accounted for during the January 2022 point-in-time count conducted by...
by Amy Butler | Dec 21, 2022 | Opinion
This happened to me on December 24, 1997. I have to tell you that first because I wouldn’t believe this story myself had I not lived it. It was like God was trying to get me to just slow down and pay attention for once. Call it a miracle or call it a thin place, it...
by Angela Grant | May 31, 2022 | Opinion
I’ve been thinking about moving recently. While I don’t have a destination in mind, as an M.K. (missionary kid) I crossed the Pacific several times, and now a move every few years feels normal. Wherever I might go, I know I would have a nice place to live. Though I...