homeless Archive

  • Ebony and Ivory: discussing the politics of race with young children

    Posted on February 21, 2012 | 8 Comments
    In the post-Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday period and in the midst of Black History Month, my kindergartner has had a lot of questions about race. Not particularly about the children in her class or our friends of different races, but particularly WHY "'most homeless people have dark skin. "

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  • Prodigal

    Posted on December 8, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Last week, at a familiar intersection, the sign a man held up said, "It doesn't take much to be kind."

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  • Favorites: Business Lunch

    Posted on October 6, 2011 | No Comments
    I asked a group with an empty chair if I could sit with them. A young man's smile put me at ease and I settled in for lunch. I wasn't sure what to say, but I needn't have worried.

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  • Joining the Jesus Freaks

    Posted on June 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Do we believe, deep down, that the poor are that way because God wants them to be?

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  • No Soup For You!

    Posted on June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
    I recently read this article in the Orlando Sentinel reporting on a third round of arrests of activists arrested for violating an ordinance prohibiting the sharing of food with large groups in a city park more than twice a year.   The group Food Not […]

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  • Twelfth Lunch

    Posted on April 28, 2011 | 3 Comments
    November 11th, 2010 I gave away the last lunch (somehow, the story of the eleventh lunch was never recorded and has been lost to the mists of time).   It had taken me 8 months to distribute them all. I was on the phone chatting […]

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  • Bearing a Burden

    Posted on February 10, 2011 | 6 Comments
    It sounds corny, but by carrying around her belongings (two pairs of sturdy shoes, a box of office supplies, a blanket, and a black garbage bag full of what I assume was clothing) I felt like I was literally bearing her burden, whoever she was.

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  • Number 7

    Posted on January 20, 2011 | 8 Comments
    I caught a glimpse of him opening the bag and then dropping it rather unceremoniously on the ground. He then picked up the sign and again and turned slowly back to the line of cars.

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  • What The Church is Doing Wrong

    Posted on January 13, 2011 | 16 Comments
    Something's better than nothing.... or is it?

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  • Lunch 5- Out of the Comfort Zone

    Posted on December 2, 2010 | 8 Comments
    We (and our children) have had to learn to be gracious guests at both cockroach infested decrepit apartments and mansions where we are served by The Help.

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  • What if God Were One of Us?

    Posted on November 18, 2010 | 2 Comments
    We try to equalize as much as possible, because I know that's how God sees us. There is not a difference in God's eyes. And you'd be surprised how much we really do have in common.

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  • Duped?

    Posted on November 4, 2010 | 14 Comments
    I was pleased to have given away my fourth lunch, but in retelling the story, I began having doubts. Was this person scamming people?

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  • Spreading Good Cheer

    Posted on October 28, 2010 | 4 Comments
    I called out- "I have a lunch!" With out missing a beat, he replied, "Not anymore you don't!"

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  • Do-er or Hear-er?

    Posted on October 21, 2010 | 4 Comments
    What in your life shows that you are a do-er, and not just a hear-er?

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  • Anticipation

    Posted on October 14, 2010 | 9 Comments
    We were on our way to church as a family, and I thought it would be a good opportunity for everyone to share in the 'lunch experience." So I was a bit disappointed when no one was waiting at the I-20 exit ramp like I anticipated.

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  • The First Lunch

    Posted on October 7, 2010 | 14 Comments
    A middle-aged Hispanic man is walking past the car where I pull up to the light. He sits down on the curb two cars behind us. He has a sign, but I don't read it.

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