A young person said to me once: "I would have no idea what to say to a homeless person." "That's easy," I replied. "Talk to them about anything except homelessness."
Read More »Homelessness During COVID-19
As I have been sheltering in place in the quietude of my apartment in North Idaho, I found myself wondering how people have been doing in the place where there is no shelter.
Read More »Smile, Revolt and Think Differently About Homelessness in Spokane
Standing before the overwhelming problem of homelessness, I often feel helpless.
Read More »‘Running the homeless out of the city is running Jesus out of the city’
I started to think about all those people we had just talked about at Coffee Talk – the people sleeping under downtown bridges or in doorways of businesses closed for the night or in their cars.
Read More »Spokane’s heart problem
Most poets, a lot of them whom I know well, made it to town just three days after a driver hit three homeless people who were sleeping up against a wall in North Spokane.
Read More »Downtown Spokane church to host panel on homeless outreach
Downtown church staff have taken notice, and they want to help. Westminster Congregational United Church of Christ, 411 S. Washington St. is hosting a panel discussion on homelessness Sept. 20 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Read More »