September 7, 2011 – 3:56 pm
Tony Lee Green, 102340, is our adopted son in prison. Below is a Cry from prison: June 17th 2011 My “M”[Murphy] and I have more than just mom and son in common; we are both struggling for a few more years of life on God’s earth and with our loved ones…. …it’s been so hot! [...]
August 15, 2011 – 6:45 pm
Means and Ends When Yahweh-Elohim decided to free the Hebrews way down in Egyptland, she used only the forces of nature and the devastation of death (fl ies and toads, etc., but no drones). In the usa today we are dying by disease and workaholism. Many of our diseases are caused by American culture, based [...]
Hospitality, vol 30, no 5 Editor’s note: This “Final Call” will be followed next month by a dose of realism: “The Institutionalization of the Homeless.” Please allow me to offer a word of introduction using a poem by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova: It is not with the lyre of someone in love [...]
February 1, 2011 – 7:19 pm
Too easy Non-eschatological hope, which is hope in human leaders and the idea of progress, often leads to a cheap optimism and a naïve view of human nature and evil. Too hard America is moving deeper and deeper into hardness of heart. The slaves suffer first. Then the walls come tumbling down again. [...]
February 1, 2011 – 7:15 pm
Frozen to Death The week after Christmas and it is freezing cold in Hotlanta. We have been opening our little dining room for a few people to come in and sleep during the cold nights. It is not enough for everyone. Randall Cook was a close friend of the Open Door Community. So close [...]
Hospitality Vol. 29, no. 4 Mystery and meaning? Coincidence that will happen again in 2021? Confusion? Light in darkness? Truth crushed to the ground rising in darkness? (William Cullen Bryant) For those of us (and we invite you too) who come to Martin Luther King Jr. via the Via Christus and to Jesus via Martin Luther King Jr., [...]
Hospitality Vol. 29, no. 4 Two years before my kitty cat Gabriel’s skull was crushed, my mother suddenly stopped the car and jumped out. We were on Highway 287 south toward the Navy shipyard outside Beaumont, Texas, where we lived in 1943. She ran up the highway, the motor stilled in our black [...]
February 1, 2010 – 8:20 pm
Hospitality, vol. 29. no.1 Editor’s note: This is the fourteenth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. Last month we discussed two answers to the question “What can we do?” We invited folk to find or create [...]
January 1, 2010 – 8:13 pm
Hospitality,vol. 29, no. 1 Editor’s note: This is the thirteenth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. We as a people are cursed. We the people: African-Aamericans, women of all races, American Indians, Latinos, Asian-Americans, children, the poor, gays [...]
