Out on the streets and in the shelters, Plunket got a rare-and sometimes harrowing-look at the everyday lives of the homeless in our city. And the experience, he says, was "transformative." He struggles to explain. "It's easier to see God in the homeless than in the average middle-class person," he says. "If Jesus were around today, I have no doubt he'd be hanging out with the homeless. They have no façade, no clothes, no makeup, no job, no place to live-all they have is their wrecked humanity. You look at them, and you realize, That's what God looks like."