Mercy is an old word
This morning at Credo, a homeless person obviously suffering the mental and physical strafing of street life, stole in and immediately and determinedly began to...
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1000 Grow Mercy dispatches
When a blog reaches 1000 posts, it’s time to take stock. Grow Mercy was, is, an experiment. In a way it began through the power of a sentence, in the context of...
Swindling death–or divine mercy
Eight hours after dodging death I delivered a qualified account of the incident to my father. He went to see the place—drove there in the old Newport—leaving me...
In the name of Love
Years ago an unimportant and diffident man was giving a tour of a homeless shelter—of which he was manager. Requests for tours were not overly frequent and they...