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 [...]
Yesterday, Rev. Murphy Davis and I were in Milledgeville, Georgia, on our monthly prison trip. We transport families, lovers and friends to visit those locked away. Through the center of the city, the old Confederate capital of slaveholding Georgia, marched a band of deformed white people. They were celebrating the birthday of one of their [...]
By Eduard Loring We have heard disappointing squeaking from the beds in the White House. We have learned, in “all the news that’s fit to print” and in salacious presentations, about beds bouncing and moans moaning in hotels and motels along the political campaign trail. A recent film, “The Ides of March,” chronicles the ride [...]
We live in a time of Time – scarcity Busy – abundance Time starved Busy bloated We live in the time Of Wal-Mart Stomp the one in front of you Jab the one before you in the back Cry of the Prisoner Dear Dad, I wish you and my mom a Merry Christmas, and [...]
August 15, 2011 – 6:45 pm
Means and Ends When Yahweh-Elohim decided to free the Hebrews way down in Egyptland, she used only the forces of nature and the devastation of death (fl ies and toads, etc., but no drones). In the usa today we are dying by disease and workaholism. Many of our diseases are caused by American culture, based [...]
February 1, 2011 – 7:19 pm
Too easy Non-eschatological hope, which is hope in human leaders and the idea of progress, often leads to a cheap optimism and a naïve view of human nature and evil. Too hard America is moving deeper and deeper into hardness of heart. The slaves suffer first. Then the walls come tumbling down again. [...]
Hospitality, Vol. 28, No. 5, Editor’s note: This is the ninth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. In Atlanta, it is against the law to ask for help. One can go to jail for asking for [...]
February 1, 2009 – 6:12 pm
Hospitality Vol. 28, No. 2, Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. An African-American disciple whose heart was filled with spiritual mysteries, whose mind was filled with ancestral wisdom and whose feet [...]
October 1, 2006 – 6:22 pm
Hospitality, Vol. 25, No. 9 Thesis Statement If you, my reader (and what a gift that you are reading this), are a person of faith in the tradition of the radical Hebrew Prophets and/or if you walk and talk the faith of Jesus, the barn-born Jew, and/or if you are a Leftist or a [...]
