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 [...]
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, [...]
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Hospitality, Vol. 28 No. 1 Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. The second greatest tragedy of our history, after slavery itself, is that no white people, no Europeans, no Jews were ever [...]
Hospitality, Vol. 25, No. 4 Dedicated to Elizabeth Omilami, my friend and a leader in The Movement to Redeem the Soul of Atlanta and Hosea Feed the Hungry. I am from a slaveholding family. We owned Black African human beings in Orangeburg County, SC. My ancestors fought in the Civil War to [...]
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 [...]
Good News! Dr. King is Alive! Name the Streets for the Dead Walk the Streets for the Living Hospitality, vol. 22, no. 8 Good news! Dr. King is alive! The revolution of values and practices breathes the breath of God. Hope is making a home in our shoes and our hearts. And Dr. King, [...]
Hospitality April 2001 Vol. 20, no. 4 The Body of Christ at the margins of the mainstream and those people captured in the spiritual famine that wreaks starvation and death upon this land cry out in anguish and hope: “Let the Church be the Church!! Stop this god awful crossless Christianity!” Well, [...]
