Tag Archives: Butler Street Breakfast

Bearing and Sharing American Hunger

Hospitality vol. 16, no. 8 (Editor’s Note:  The following article by Ed Loring is an adaptation of a Keynote Address he presented at The Women’s Conference at Montreat, North Carolina on July 3, 1997)   I   On Saturday June 14, 1997 our daughter Hannah Williams Loring-Davis graduated from Grady High School, a public intown [...]

Standing in the Butler St. Breakfast Line with Jesus The Butler St. Breakfast, part 4

You cannot be a slave to two masters.  You will hate one and love the other.  You will be loyal to one and despise the other.  You cannot serve God and money.  This is why I tell you: do not be worried about food and drink you need in order to stay alive, or about [...]

Hunger on Butler St., The Butler St. Breakfast, part 3

Hospitality vol. 15, no.4   Editor’s note: The following piece is a transcription of a meditation Ed Loring gave at the Open Door Community worship on November 26, 1995.  It is the third in a series of sermons on the Butler Street Breakfast.   Butler Street is a road, and we are on a journey.  [...]

Butler St. Breakfast, Part 2

Hospitality vol. 14, no. 11   (Editor’s note: The following piece is a transcription of Ed Loring’s sermon on the Butler Street Breakfast, preached on September 17, 1995.  It is the second part of a series on the ministries of the Open Door Community.)   Since 1982, the Open Door Community has been serving breakfast [...]

The Butler Street Breakfast

  Hospitality Vol.14, no.10   (Editor’s note: This article is a transcription of Ed Loring’s Sunday evening meditation at the Open Door Worship on August 13.  Ed Loring is a partner at the Open Door Community.) A month or so ago, the Worship Committee made the decision that we would spend some of our Sunday [...]

Standing on the Rock

Hospitality vol. 4, no. 8 Early one morning last July, I stood upon the harsh concrete of the sidewalk beside Edgewood Avenue. Butler Street CME church had closed its basement for renovations, so we were serving the Butler Street Breakfast to 150 folk on the sidewalk. As soon as we began, various protests from Hugh [...]

The Butler Street Breakfast: Breaking Bread Together

Hospitality vol. 2, no. 3 What’s Happening? 5:45 am. Barbara, Dawn, Mary, Andy, John, or Carolyn–one of them on successive mornings Monday to Friday slips out of bed and stumbles toward the dark kitchen. Now is the time to cook the Butler Street breakfast The night before big bowls of grits have been measured, 150 [...]