I got way more than I gave in 30 years as a journalist. The payoff came as a Joseph’s coat of strangers.

Here are five folks I’d love to host for a Sunday dinner.

·      Harry Chapin, musician-writer of the Seventies turned hunger activist.

·      Dick and Arlene Roth, small Wisconsin dairy farmers committed to educating the public.

·      Mike McGarvin, a reformed ruffian who created Fresno’s Poverello House for the homeless.

·      David Oglesby, a retired Southern Baptist minister who sought wisdom from many beliefs in the face of personal tragedy.