One twilight last summer, a hungry black bear came into our yard at Dayspringfarm. She has been comin’ round the mountain now for several years. Our bear loves sunflower seeds. Around our bird feeders she dances like a 100-pound goldfinch. She has smashed beyond use several of our hospitality locations for God’s birds. Dick Rustay [...]
Prologue Hello, I am TroyDavis. You killed me on September 21, 2011. You wanted to kill me at 7 p.m., but it was 11:08 before your Georgia venom took me down. Now I walk your streets with the poor and homeless and haunt your gated “communities” while you drink too much wine and gorge yourselves [...]
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! [...]
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 – 7:15 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 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 [...]
Vol. 28, No. 6 Editor’s note: This is the tenth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. The cry of the poor is a call to reduce the distance among us into the solidarity of shared life for [...]
Hospitality, vol. 28, no. Last month I pointed to two major forces that shape the Open Door Community’s front yard in the early mornings: Coca-Cola and Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind,” the novel and the film. In this article I shall shine a light on a third force: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [...]
Hospitality vol. 28, no. 3, Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. Place: The Open Door Community front yard. Former Creek Nation land. Former territory of the Confederate States of America. Today, [...]
