This week on Faithfully Memphis, Bishop Phoebe Roaf is joined in conversation with Pat Morgan, whose latest nonfiction work We Hardly Knew Them: How Homeless, Mentally Ill People Became Collateral Damage just received the NYC Big Book Award in the Cultural and Social Issues category. In the book, Pat Morgan takes aim at a major issue that results in homelessness, premature deaths, and jails and prisons becoming de facto mental hospitals, and an enormously expensive housing program that fails far too many mentally ill people who desperately need supportive "housing that heals." In their discussion, Pat shares the driving force behind her life's work of advocacy for unhoused people experiencing mental illnesses and what people of faith can do to disrupt the social and political systems that contribute to ongoing homelessness.
Bishop Phoebe also talks about the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, which is celebrated on September 29.