Distant Churches and the Isolated Poor: Lessons from Katrina, Ten Years Later
…he urban poor in various contexts have suffered from what has also been a scarcity of institutional supports—including churches. The social storms that have ravaged vulnerable urban contexts have also impacted church life. In neighborhoods where populations have become poorer and less connected to mainstream social institutions and social procedures in-general, churches have grown distant themselves from these populations and from the neighborhood…
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