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Dignity

What person who does what this woman does has not been there? How I admire them and cherish them. I see them each day, serving in a variety of ways, dealing with the heartbreaking realities of the poor: frustration; violent transference; physical and mental sickness; rejection; police harassment; loneliness; hunger for food, friendship, and purpose

Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Peter A. Levine

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Chris Arnade • Dignity

on a visit to New York City, he saw hungry-looking men sleeping in alleyways, as if one foot were already in the grave. “These people are Les Miseràbles of America,” he wrote to his parents in September 1965. “People that don’t make it in America’s social race to succeed are simply run over.”

Ariel Sabar • My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

God, I pray first of all for the brothers and sisters in this jail, that you might strengthen them. I pray for the people who come to the Downtown Chapel to get something to eat and for the staff that provides for them; I pray for all the poor; I pray in thanksgiving for all the people who help me here and for Father Gary, who comes to see me. Plea

Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

Anthony Bourdain, like Fran Liebowitz, has become an untouchable. That said, how can you not love a man who said, "Is there any place left in New York where an old guy can have a drink in the afternoon and, you know, be a little depressed?"

Again, I want to be very clear that these neighborhoods are not some hell on earth, and anyone from the rest of world would be smitten to have the chance to live in them. As I wrote above, if an average African, Asian, or Latin American asked my advice I would tell them to move there. It would be downright weird of me to tell them otherwise, given ... See more

Chris Arnade • A brief foray into Dallas, missing Kampala, and some thoughts on over-tourism

Arnold Kling, an economist, published a book a decade ago that offered a way to think about the core difference between progressives and conservatives. Progressives, Kling wrote, see the world as a struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed, and they try to help the oppressed. Conservatives see the world as a struggle between civilization and... See more