As I sit here, my fingers tapI stood with a homeless friend who spoke of a pastor who did this and did that— saying it only was to make himself look good to the world. I listened as this same friend as he spoke of how a situation might appear one way to most people—but its design was to puff up the party who seemingly took an interest in the homeless to make himself look good.

I heard him speak of those observations, those he witnessed, and he assessed how other people only wanted to rise to ...