The Contractor Who Read Isaiah on a Job Site

Marcus DeLeon had been a faithful church member for twenty years — never missed a Sunday, tithed to the dollar, fasted every Lent. Then one Tuesday morning, he stood in a gutted duplex on Magnolia Street in Memphis, tearing out water-damaged drywall for a nonprofit housing ministry, and something shifted. The family who lived there — a grandmother raising three grandchildren — had been sleeping in a kitchen with black mold climbing the walls for two years.…