Lisha Epperson is a hopeful romantic, a lover of Jesus, a writer, speaker, and dancer seeking ordination as a minister. She writes about how grace intersects with her life as a midlife woman of faith, as a believer in New York City, and as a learner pursuing her passions and calling in the midst of it all. She covers topics on relationships, faith, race and justice issues, the connection between movement and prayer, and on motherhood, including her journey through the wilderness of infertility and her perspective now as a step, adoptive, and biological mama. You can read more from her at www.lishaepperson.com.

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God on the Steps

by Lisha Epperson 06-29-2016

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The geography of poverty and its proximity to such opulence is one of the oddities of the city. Juxtaposed against the seeming wealth of the church, a community has formed — they live, literally, on the margins of this great structure. The church allows it. That the city frowns upon it is another story.