BU Student Documents the Local Homeless Experience on TikTok
Food for Thought's main goals: educating the public on the root causes of homelessness and providing unhoused persons a platform to share their stories.
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Food for Thought's main goals: educating the public on the root causes of homelessness and providing unhoused persons a platform to share their stories.
BOSTON -- In August 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the San Lorenzo Capuchin Friary in Jamaica Plain began using a customized van to deliver food to places where homeless people congregate. Since then, the ministry has expanded in both the frequency of their trips and the depth of relationships they develop with those they meet.
Chaplains and the rise of on-demand spiritual support Jonathan D. Fitzgerald © Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff Carlito Ortiz hugs Lisa Loughlin, a Common Cathedral chaplain, after she prayed with him in Back Bay Station. Mourning a death. Coping with grief. Healing the heartsick and soothing the sufferers. For much of human history, people addressed loss and trauma through rituals drawn from faith traditions, performed in spaces we called sacred — churches, temples, shrines, mosques — and led by ministers and rabbis, imams and priests. But in New England, where the influenc...