Tag Archives: Civil Rights Movement

The Conversion of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Ed Loring Hospitality,  vol. 23, no. 1 (Editor’s note: Ed Loring, a Partner at the Open Door Community, preached this sermon at worship.)   Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.  The kindom of heaven, the Beloved Community, belongs to them.  Happy are you, happy are you, happy are [...]

John Rocker Won’t Fly Over the South Carolina Statehouse

  Hospitality vol. 19, no. 7   Harry Truman started the whole thing.  Well, not really.  Maybe it was Nat Turner in 1831.  Or maybe it was the Revs. James H. Thornwell and Charles C. Jones teaching Southerners, Black and White, that Jesus was in favor of slavery which was no sin, after all, because [...]

A New Heaven and A New Earth: Thanksgiving for African History

  Hospitality vol. 17, no. 7     (Editor’s note: This piece is based on a sermon Ed preached at St. Philip Monumental AME Church in Savannah, Georgia, on May 17, 1998.  The Open Door Community was on its annual African-American History Tour.  Ed is a Partner at the Open Door.) The Open Door is [...]