When he was about 18 years old, Jonathan Scott Warren, known as Scotty, left his hometown in Sandpoint, Idaho to ride the rails with the hobos.
He was going to tell them about Jesus.
Some of the best theological conversations I have occur on the porch steps outside Holy Trinity's sacristy. There, various homeless people tend to hang out drinking morning beer or waking up on our heated walkway.
LeeAnn Winters graduated from culinary school, landed a job and is about to move into quality local housing. She couldn’t have done it, she said, without help from Catholic Charities of Spokane.
“I grew up in a cycle of domestic violence,” she said.