Description
Disrupting Homelessness unmasks the futile assumptions of our present approaches to homelessness and suggests ways in which Christians and Christian communities can create a prophetic social movement to end poverty and homelessness.
The American dream, as conveyed by the media, includes owning a home. Increasingly, people are homeless or precariously housed because of joblessness, foreclosure, or dislocation. Ecclesial responses to homelessness and housing vary. Some Christian organizations focus on fixing the person and the behaviors that contribute to homelessness. Others promote home ownership for lowincome households.
Employing a disruptive Christian ethics, Laura Stivers criticizes both approaches, outlines an advocacy approach for churches to address the multiple causes of homelessness, and calls us to make a home for all in God's just and compassionate community.
Author: Laura Stivers
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.59w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9780800697976
ISBN10: 0800697979
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living | Social Issues
- Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness
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