First published in February, 2011
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. [...]
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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 [...]
First published in April, 2010
Hospitality Vol. 29, no. 4 Mystery and meaning? Coincidence that will happen again in 2021? Confusion? Light in darkness? Truth crushed to the ground rising in darkness? (William Cullen Bryant) For those of us (and we invite you too) who come to Martin Luther King Jr. via the Via Christus and to Jesus via Martin Luther King Jr., [...]
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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 [...]
First published in February, 2010
Hospitality, vol. 29. no.1 Editor’s note: This is the fourteenth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. Last month we discussed two answers to the question “What can we do?” We invited folk to find or create [...]
First published in January, 2010
Hospitality,vol. 29, no. 1 Editor’s note: This is the thirteenth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. We as a people are cursed. We the people: African-Aamericans, women of all races, American Indians, Latinos, Asian-Americans, children, the poor, gays [...]
First published in June, 2009
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 [...]
First published in May, 2009
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 [...]
