Manuel Mejido Costoya 
Land of Stark Contrasts [EPUB ebook] 
Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the United States

Introduction
Manuel Mejido Costoya | 1
Part I: Public Religion and Community Revitalization
Talking About Homelessness:
Shifting Discourses and the Appeal to Religion in America’s Seventh-Largest City
James V. Spickard | 49
Becoming More Effective Community Problem Solvers:
Faith-Based Organizations, Civic Capacity, and the Homelessness Crisis in Puget Sound
Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen | 72
Disenfranchising the Unhoused: Urban Redevelopment,
the Criminalization of Homelessness, and the Peril of Prosperity Theology in Dallas and Beyond
Michael R. Fisher Jr. | 117
Religious Responses to Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area:
Addressing White Supremacy and Racism
Laura Stivers | 140
Homelessness and Health in Seattle:
Challenges and Opportunities of Faith-Based Services
Lauren Valk Lawson | 162
Part II: Religious Worldviews and the Common Good Reimagined
Homelessness and Coast Salish Spiritual Traditions:
Cultural Resources for Programmatic Responses in British Columbia
Bruce Granville Miller | 193
In These United States, Homelessness Is Who You Are:
Examining a Socially Constructed Category through the Lens of an Interfaith Encounter in Downtown Boston
Nancy A. Khalil | 214
Religion and Civic Activism Reconsidered:
Situating Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness
John A. Coleman, S.J. | 226
On the Passionality of Exile in Medieval Kabbalah:
An Invitation to Historicize Contemporary Religious and Public Discourses on Homelessness
Jeremy Phillip Brown | 250
Part III: Theological Insights for Homeless Ministries
Wounds of Love: Spiritual Care and Homelessness in the Streets of Seattle
Paul Houston Blankenship | 277
Making Spirits Whole: Homeless Ministries as a Tool for Integral Development
María Teresa Dávila | 297
“And I Saw Googleville Descend from Heaven”:
Reading the New Jerusalem in Gentrified Latinx Communities of Silicon Valley
Roberto Mata | 316
Offensive Wisdom: Homeless Neighbors, Bible Interpretation, and the Abode of God in Washington, D.C.
Sathianathan Clarke | 331
Acknowledgments | 351
List of Contributors | 353
Index | 357

Laura Stivers is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Education and Professor of Social Ethics at Dominican University of California. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, her M.Div. from Pacific School of Religion, and her B.A. from Saint Olaf College. Stivers was a past president of the Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion and served on the Board of the Society of Christian Ethics. She is the author of Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches (Fortress Press, 2011); coauthor of Earth Ethics: A Case Method Approach (Orbis, 2015) and Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach (Orbis, 2020); and coeditor of Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World (Westminster John Knox, 2006).