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Making a Home for All in God's Compassionate Community: A Feminist Liberation Assessment of Christian Responses to Homelessness and Housing
Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (2008)
  • Laura Stivers, Pfeiffer University
Abstract
The American dream includes owning a home, and the bigger the better. Christian 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 low-income households. Employing aspects of Traci West's feminist liberationist ethical methodology, I will assess how these approaches buy into our culture's dominant ideology on housing or offer prophetic disruption. Then I will outline an advocacy approach that addresses the multiple causes of homelessness and prophetically aims to make a home for all in God's compassionate community.
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Publication Date
Fall 2008
Citation Information
Laura Stivers. "Making a Home for All in God's Compassionate Community: A Feminist Liberation Assessment of Christian Responses to Homelessness and Housing" Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics Vol. 28 Iss. 2 (2008) p. 51 - 74 ISSN: 1540-7942
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/laura_stivers/10/