Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches

by Laura Stivers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800697979
• ISBN13: 9780800697976
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"