The Empty Pew and the Full Freezer

Every Sunday morning, First Community Church in Decatur, Georgia held a prayer vigil for their struggling neighborhood. They sang. They fasted. They wept at the altar for the poverty just beyond their parking lot. Then they locked the doors and drove home. It was a retired schoolteacher named Dorothy Coleman who finally said what everyone needed to hear. "We've been fasting with clenched fists," she told the deacons one Wednesday night.…