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 [...]
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 [...]
November 11, 2007 – 6:57 pm
A cold coming we had of it, Murphy and I. She was still shrunken by the war in her beat down body, the fight for life against the omnivorous hungry cancer cells working to eat by baby alive. We were driving in a driving wind, up and down the Tennessee mountains where Grant rode [...]
Hospitality, Vol. 24, No. 4 Mary, the mother of our nonviolent God, was a peasant girl about 14 years old when, in 5 BCE, she enters history. She comes today into our home, so let me introduce you to our meeting place. The Second Door. We have a sacred and holy place inside our house. [...]
Hospitality, vol. 23, no. 3 Jesus suffered outside the city, so that his life would free people from the domination system. That is why we should go outside the system and share Jesus’ disgrace. (Hebrews 13:12-13, Street Adaptation) ‘Tis the homeless hated that hurt so: Not alone for those who freeze In [...]
September 1, 2003 – 3:24 pm
Hospitality, vol. 22, no. 9 (Editor’s note: A version of the following article ran as an Op-Ed piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 7, 2003. We hope you will join us in Woodruff Park for the Festival of Shelters, September 24-26. Look on pages 4-5 for more articles and photos about the Open Door’s [...]
Hospitality, July 2003, vol. 22, no. 7 One Ignatius Wallace is a friend of mine. We’ve been members of Concerned Black Clergy for more than the past decade. Last week, this Black man leaned against the wall at our MARTA Five Points train station. The Police were quickly at his side, [...]
