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Tickets and Healing at the Pool

January 10, 2012 – 8:37 pm

By Eduard Loring After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethzatha. A large crowd of sick people were lying in the porches — the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed. A man was there [...]

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The Circle Before Supper: Drake and Toviyah

March 1, 2011 – 7:23 pm

He entered Sunday worship late, sheepishly. Slight smile of recognition. Donning good used Christian clothes. Thick shoes ready for manual labor should such manna fall from heaven and land on him as he cries out at the catch-out corner. Two front teeth long gone. Hands huge; body built by the other side of the [...]

By Ed | Tagged ODC Friends on the street

The Cry of the Poor: Cracking White Male Supremacy (Part 12) Sanctuary for the Disinherited

November 1, 2009 – 8:04 pm

Hospitality, vol. 28, no. 10 Editor’s note: This is the twelfth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. Much more goes on in our home, from our Welcome Table, seen and unseen. We serve other meals. We take families [...]

By Ed | Also posted in The Homeless | Tagged Cry of the Poor, White Male Supremacy

The Cry of the Poor: Cracking White Male Supremacy, Part 11 Hope Against Hope, and Possible Possibilities

October 1, 2009 – 7:56 pm

Hospitality, vol. 28, no.9 Editor’s note: This is the eleventh in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series Back to the front yard. 7 a.m. The disinherited gather in our front yard as they do in places all [...]

By Ed | Tagged Cry of the Poor, White Male Supremacy

Walking Toward the Open Door Community Roots and Branches, 1937-2006 On Becoming a White Negro

July 1, 2006 – 6:07 pm

Hospitality, Vol. 25, No. 7 My mom is dead. May 14, 2006 was my first Mother’s Day as a motherless child. On Mother’s Day I returned to the now-Black Church, Hillside Presbyterian Church, in Decatur, Georgia. This is the church I joined in 1964 to begin my walk into the Presbyterian Church, U.S., [...]

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Street Words

May 1, 2000 – 9:47 pm

Hospitality vol. 19, no. 5 Do you remember Bard Rudder? He lived here at 910 a long time ago. He is a brilliant man and graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology. He began the door and phone rotation shortly after moving into our home from the persistent streets of Ponce de Leon Ave. [...]

By Ed | Tagged Mental illness, ODC Friends on the street, Residents

Healing Without Housing: the Open Door Community’s Medical Clinic

June 1, 1999 – 6:41 pm

Hospitality vol. 18, no. 6 A dark damp Thursday night in February, the wind is howling and the neighborhood dogs, held at bay by chain link fences, bark into the starless night. Their growls are muffled by the mad traffic that roars up and down Ponce de Leon Avenue winking at the red traffic [...]

By Ed | Also posted in The Homeless | Tagged Medical Clinic

Remembering: We Have A Dream

March 1, 1999 – 5:20 pm

Hospitality vol. 18, no. 3 I. Dreaming At Dayspring Sunday morning several months ago we ended our Planning Retreat with a powerful worship service filled with lightning and fire. I am thankful for the wonderful experience of having my feet washed by Patrick Leland. I have thought about it often since then. [...]

By Ed | Tagged Footwashing, MLK, Retreat

Thank You For Sharing

February 1, 1999 – 4:55 pm

Hospitality vol. 18, no. 2 The source of Biblical economic ethics is water. Rainfall. A free gift. Our farmers plow and plant with tractors eight rows wide. Then they wait; many still, even in secular Imperial super-power America, pray. When it rains, the seeds die unto themselves, and a new plant breaks forth from [...]

By Ed | Tagged Biblical Economics

A New Heaven and A New Earth: Thanksgiving for African History

July 1, 1998 – 8:32 pm

Hospitality vol. 17, no. 7 (Editor’s note: This piece is based on a sermon Ed preached at St. Philip Monumental AME Church in Savannah, Georgia, on May 17, 1998. The Open Door Community was on its annual African-American History Tour. Ed is a Partner at the Open Door.) The Open Door is [...]

By Ed | Also posted in Racism | Tagged African history, Civil Rights Movement, Liberation history, MLK, Slavery

Eduard Nuessner Loring is a founding partner of the Open Door Community in Atlanta, Georgia. He seeks his redemption by opening his home to the homeless poor, feeding the hungry visiting on Georgia's death row, shouting for justice in the streets, digging in the dirt and living by the pen instead of the sword. He and his beloved wife, Murphy Davis, have planted their roots at the Open Door.

You can contact Ed at the Open Door's main number 404/874-9652, his voicemail 770/246-7620, or by email edloring@opendoorcommunity.org
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