Tag Archives: Cause of homelessness

Two More Causes of Homelessness and Hunger in the United States of America E Pluribus Unum!!

  Hospitality vol. 18, no. 1   I   Poverty is the condition of not having access to enough economic resources to live a just and joyful life.  The God of the Bible in both the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Scriptures is a God who has a special love and concern for those enthralled [...]

Hunger on Butler St., The Butler St. Breakfast, part 3

Hospitality vol. 15, no.4   Editor’s note: The following piece is a transcription of a meditation Ed Loring gave at the Open Door Community worship on November 26, 1995.  It is the third in a series of sermons on the Butler Street Breakfast.   Butler Street is a road, and we are on a journey.  [...]

The Abolition of Slavery As A Root Cause Of Homelessness

Hospitality, vol. 13, no. 7   Six of us stood in the largest Atlanta labor pool.  Around us, practically stacked upon each other, were 200 folk, mostly men, mostly African American.  Some lay crouched along the wall, trying to fetch the sleep always denied the homeless wanderer in this city so filled with fear and [...]

I Hear Hope Banging On My Back Door: Why Homelessness Exist in America

I Hear Hope Banging On My Back Door: Why Homelessness Exist in America   PART IV,   Space and Time   I love the name,  The Open Door Community.   God gave us that name just as He gave names in biblical times.  Early one morning an angel of the Lord appeared to me and said:  [...]

Letter to Paul Richards

Uptown Shelter George Shinn Center 1210 N. Tryon Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28206   Dear Paul:   Thank you so much for your life of caring and servanthood among our homeless brothers and sisters. Thank you for reading our paper, Hospitality, and thank you for your thoughtful letter.   I surely agree that addiction is [...]

Atlanta, Georgia: Beggars and Bankers Inside the Big Red Line

Hospitality vol. 9, no. 3   See how wicked people think up evil; They plan trouble and practice deception. But in the traps they set for others, They themselves get caught. So they are punished by their own evil and hurt by their own violence. Psalm 7:14-16   We have a serious problem in downtown [...]