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Homelessness: Josh Sabo on a strategy of collective impact

Josh Sabo: An unexpected spiritual journey led him to becoming a pastor, followed by a spiritual restlessness leading to an equally unexpected path to serve a broader community as the executive director of Heartland HOUSED, devoted to achieving functional zero homelessness in Springfield, Illinois, through a housing first strategy of collective impact.

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Ep. 9: Rabbi Arthur Stern

Arthur Stern had no thought of becoming Rabbi Stern while pursuing a successful career in business, certainly not while living in a homeless shelter during a period when his life came apart due to addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Even when the voice unexpectedly came to him to become a rabbi – a message that seemed to be from God – he struggled with accepting it as actually a message from God. But, after a series of events confirming that was the direction God wanted him to go, and even though he was again working full time as a business executive, Arthur Stern went to rabbinical school and became Rabbi Stern.

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Ep. 6: Steven Collis on Freedom of Religion

“If we don’t understand what we have here in religious freedom, we risk losing it.”

So says Steven Collis, legal expert on freedom of religion, law professor, and author of two books on the subject, “Deep Conviction” and “The Immortals.”

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