Like politics, faith is not generally considered a suitable subject for dinner-party conversation. That faith in the public realm is about both religion and politics make this highly charged territory. (Dinham & Lowndes, 2009, p. 1; emphasis in original)Faith is a deeply personal or "touchy" matter for many people, and sociopolitical sensitivities regarding religion are legion. These often come to the fore when faith community involvement in public service delivery is under discussion (Jochum et al., 2007). One might therefore expect that introducing such issues into research involving highly vulnerable people might complicate the research dynamic, and perhaps even risk aggravating raw nerves when people are in the