From Streets to Scholarship by Terence Lester

From Streets to Scholarship by Terence Lester

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Good News Worth Naming in 2026
Against the odds, we opened a third Zion’s Closet and watched community show up in real ways.
 • Terence Lester, Ph.D.
A Public Apology for Those Who Are Hungry
A reflection on hunger, moral responsibility, and the cost of political indifference
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No Longer a Professor
What Government Layoffs Are Revealing
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Hungry to Learn?
Why Meeting Students’ Basic Needs Is an Urgent Education Issue
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Dear Student and Future Student
Today, My Fifth Book Releases Into the World
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What It Took for Me to Overcome Recent Adversity
A Conversation on Faith, Healing, and Grief Recovery with My Friend Tedashii
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What Is Sustaining My Compassion
This past weekend, I got a chance to speak at a church here in Atlanta, and to be honest it was my first message I have delivered in a church space…
 • Terence Lester, Ph.D.
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Volunteers Transform a Title I Classroom
A Second Zion’s Closet at Liberty Point Elementary School
 • Terence Lester, Ph.D.
A Live Book Reading, Conversation, and A Deeper Why
An Invitation to Something Personal (Atlanta)
 • Terence Lester, Ph.D.
10:21
Kindness in the Midst of Cancer
Watch now (10 mins) | Suffering, Compassion, and the God Who Cares
 • Terence Lester, Ph.D.
From Streets to Scholarship by Terence Lester
From Streets to Scholarship by Terence Lester
From Streets to Scholarship is a newsletter about dignity, compassion, justice, faith, culture, and what we can do to create change.
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