My education in "the least of these" truly began in the late 1980s when I returned to St. Edward's University in Austin as an non-traditional student. One of my philosophy professors worked with the homeless, and in one half-hour period, he shattered all the conventional wisdom about them.
It still surprises me to this day was that I needed him to tell me what I already knew, for I had been homeless with two young children.
So who are "the least of these" and how do we treat them? What I've learned over the years, what I've seen, has left me furious.
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