Beacon Interfaith

Courage to ask hard questions

One Saturday, shy nine-year-old Lena paced outside my office door. I smiled and said hi as I entered and exited my office. Saturday afternoons at the Families Moving Forward Program Center are a blur of requests for laundry detergent, baby wipes and diapers, soap and shampoo for showers, the...

Your voice needed now

It’s crunch time at the Capitol. Now would be a good time to contact your legislator to make sure our state's budget -- our moral blueprint for what we're investing in-- includes significant funding for services for the growing number of people who are homeless in our state,...