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 [...]
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. 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, vol. 22, no. 6 I. Lunch Time She was so bent over, all we could see was her lower backside. I walked over to the city garbage can to get closer to her. The lid on the garbage can was locked. But there were holes on the sides, and that’s where [...]
Hospitality, vol. 22, no. 5 I. Giving and Receiving In all this I have given you an example that by such work [manual labor with no desire for riches or fashionable clothes] we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, ‘It is more blessed to give [...]
Hospitality, April 2003, vol. 22, no. 4 (Editor’s note: Ed Loring, a Partner at the Open Door Community, preached the following sermon at the Seattle Mennonite Church on September 29, 2002.) The Message to Laodicea And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The words of the Amen, the faithful [...]
