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The Homeless Are People Too!

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ April 10, 2012 /

However, in almost all American societies, the homeless are treated as less than people, with some communities trying to refuse the right of the homeless to sleep, to go to the bathroom or even to receive food or adequate health care. The United States have gone through a process of...

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What Helps The Mentally Ill?

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ April 10, 2012 /

Transforming the Mind What helps the mentally ill? The first answer that most people usually come up with to mental illness is “medication”. Medication can help the mentally ill in many cases, even completely cure them. For others, however, medication helps only in a limited way, while inducing a number...

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What Does It Mean To Be Mentally Ill?

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ April 10, 2012 /

What I Would, That Do I Not What does it mean to be mentally ill? We all have mental weaknesses. All of us have areas in our lives in which we are, admittedly, irrational and difficult to deal with. We all, at times, do things that others are uncomfortable with,...

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Prevent Schizophobia! Respect Those with Mental Illnesses

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ April 10, 2012 /

What is mental illness? For many, it is acting like a child, when one is an adult. Many mentally ill people act oddly for an adult—but the same behavior in a child would be understood. In many ways, a mentally ill person acts like a child—with tantrums, threats, inappropriate questions...

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Why the Homeless Don’t Come to Church

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ April 10, 2012 / 1 Comment

Culture Shock Approximately 30 to 50 percent of the homeless are committed, baptized Christians. Yet most of us don’t see them, or even the working class, in our churches. This is not because the homeless or the lower social class don’t go to church. Rather, they have their own churches....

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What Should The Church To Do About Homelessness?

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ April 10, 2012 /

What is the church to do about homelessness? The homeless are both the bane and pity of our society. They stand out as the lowest, the outcast, those who perpetually don’t fit in. In 2005 there were 744,000 homeless people in the United States, yet not all of these...

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What Causes Homelessness?

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ April 10, 2012 /

Why Have You Forsaken Me? Often people blame homelessness on “The Big Two”: addiction and mental illness. While these two issues are certainly factors in most homelessness, it is difficult to determine whether they are primarily the cause or the result of homelessness. Below are some issues related to homelessness...

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What Does It Mean to Be Homeless?

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ April 10, 2012 /

No Place To Rest His Head While the experience of each homeless individual varies, here are some examples of what homelessness means to many of them: Homelessness means: ~Walking miles to every meal. ~Having little or no privacy. ~Regularly being asked by the police for your identification and being questioned...

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Stop Hobophobia

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ April 10, 2012 / 1 Comment

Prevent Prejudice and Hatred against the Homeless Countless times a day, homeless people are rejected, falsely accused, harassed, ticketed, and even beat up, all for the “crime” of not having a roof over their heads or of being dirty or of carrying all their possessions in a backpack. The homeless...

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