As people of God, when we read scriptures like Isaiah 58, where God is like, hey, do you want to know the type of fast that I'm interested in?

Do you really want to know how to get to my heart?

Here's how you do it.

Clothe the naked, feed the hungry, and invite the homeless poor into your home.

Now, the church has done pretty well at the first two.

We're good at food drives and

coat drives. We've not done the third one at all.

Hey, friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology and Rahm. My guest today is Dr. Gabriel

Claudus, who founded Settled, a movement of believers radically committed to life with the poor.

So settled, as you'll hear, was birthed out of Gabriel's doctoral research on chronic homelessness and affordable housing, where she's discovered the critical response is enduring relationships.

And that's something we talk a lot about. Really learned a ton of this

episode. I had a lot of questions and I'm sure you will too. I didn't get all my questions asked,

but she answered a lot of the ones that were floating around in my mind and the questions that

I was thinking about what other people would ask. So I think you will really be

challenged greatly as I was with this conversation. Gosh, I'm still just kind of really, having

just recorded with her about, yeah, what does it mean to follow the heart of Jesus into

uncomfortable places? So settled is the organization. It exists to guide the local church to cultivate home in a homeless world by planting intentional and permanent tiny home communities on their land.

If you were at the exiles of Babylon Conference in Minneapolis, then you know that Church of the Open Door that hosts that conference has a settled community

that they are establishing on their land. And we talk about that towards in this episode.

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