How Christians Can Help End Homelessness with Kevin Nye

Today, Jonathan and Sy speak with author and housing advocate Kevin Nye about the Church and homelessness. We get into:

-        The ineffective housing policies Christians often promote

-        The bad theology behind those policies

-        A run-in Kevin had with institutional resistance to his view that governments shouldn’t criminalize homelessness

-        How churches can get things right in ministries to unhoused people

-        Plus, hear our thoughts on the interview,

-        A discussion of how we are resisting the negative ways the election is trying to shape us mentally and spiritually

-        And our thoughts on all the discourse around Ta-Nehisi Coates’ controversial new book

Mentioned in the episode:

-        Kevin’s article on Christians mistakenly rejecting housing-first policies

-        Josiah Haken’s book, Neighbors with No Doors

-        Kevin’s article on Christianity Today’s coverage of homelessness

-        His article in RNS about a Supreme Court case on unhoused people’s constitutional rights

-        His book, Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness

-        His Substack, Who Is My Neighbor?

-        Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, The Message

-        Our newsletter with links to a couple of Coates’ interviews

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-        Our theme song is “Citizens” by Jon Guerra – listen to the whole song on Spotify.

-        Our podcast art is by Robyn Burgess – follow her and see her other work on Instagram.

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