Homeless In Des Moines
What is one of the biggest challenges that the homeless face in Des Moines?
What is homelessness?
Who said that despair can happen when we care too much about earthly things?
What is Kierkegaard?
What emotion do many homeless people feel because they don’t have basic resources?
What is Despair?
What can help us better understand what homeless people are feeling.
What is Listening with empathy or emotional awareness?
This emphasizes the importance of this temporal dimension in understanding human experiences and fostering hope.
What is the future?
What basic need is often unavailable for low-income people?
What is affordable housing?
What does Kierkegaard say causes despair when we feel stuck and nothing can change?
What is despair of necessity?
What happens when despair starts to affect part of a homeless person’s life?
What is despair over the earthly things?
What kind of services can give hope to someone who is homeless?
What is access to shelter, food, healthcare, and counseling?
Pastoral caregivers act as these, embodying hope and representing both the church and God.
What are Agents of Hope?
This feeling, common among the homeless, includes isolation and the belief that change is impossible.
What is hopelessness?
According to the Protestant perspective, this is considered a human condition rather than just an action.
What is sin?
What can help homeless people reconnect with their sense of identity and purpose?
What is faith or relationship with God?
What can churches and communities do to help people without homes?
What is provide housing, services, support, and advocacy?
For the homeless, this community-based ally can help restore identity and belonging.
What is a faith community or church?
This kind of legislation and community effort can help reduce homelessness.
What is compassion-driven policies?
John Savage’s book emphasizes this emotional skill as key to understanding and helping the homeless.
What is emotional awareness?
Bringle notes that despair “attracts more and more objects into itself,” which makes it resemble this concept.
What is a downward spiral?
What skill, from John Savage’s book, helps people understand their emotions better?
What is Control Issue (Emotional awareness and naming emotions)?
These external supports—such as shelters or supportive programs—can act as structural allies of hope.
What are social services or community resources?
This societal attitude must be overcome in order to better address homelessness.
What is stigma?
God’s presence during suffering is not just an idea but this kind of reality.
What is a lived reality?
This type of despair is described as when suffering is so deep that one cannot see any way forward or future.
What is existential despair?
When society helps people reconnect with their sense of self and their value, it is working to do this.
What is restore dignity or rebuild identity?
Hope is not just defined as an emotion, but as this kind of structure in the human mind.