A Center for Homeless Residents Was Set to Close. Then Rick Steves Stepped in

A Center for Homeless Residents Was Set to Close. Then Rick Steves Stepped in

– provided to the Washington Post by Rick Steves Travel teaches many lessons, and for famous American travel writer Rick Steves, one of those is that “Love thy neighbor” need not depend on proximity. The biblical phrase has been on Steves’ mind of late, following his philanthropic rescue of a community hygiene center where those … Read more

Good Samaritans Stop Theft of a Purse from A Woman Who Wasn’t Even There

Good Samaritans Stop Theft of a Purse from A Woman Who Wasn’t Even There

Lavonne Schaafsma (Courtesy photo) From NPR’s Unsung Heroes column comes the story of a woman whose purse was saved from a thief by two women she didn’t know—and she wasn’t even there. She had left her purse by accident on a bench, and it was the mere optics of the situation that drove two Samaritans … Read more