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Some politicians say faith-based programs cure social ills.
That's how Frances White, a jobless mother facing eviction from a crumbling house, suddenly found herself adopted by a suburban church. Not long ago, no governor or politician could get away with asking churches to do the antipoverty work that is normally the responsibility of government. And it would have been the height of hokeyness to suggest that churches, synagogues and mosques could cure the drug addicted, feed the hungry, house the homeless, rehabilitate the criminal and lift the poor better than government. Olasky Marvin Olasky's appeal A golden age of charity W riter Marvin Olasky dressed himself in rags and roamed Washington, D.C.'s streets posing as a homeless man. He got food, pills and shelter.