Tag Archives: Famine in the Land

Hunger & Gifts: The Jesus Prayer, Part III God So Loved the World That She Calls Us to Accountability for Hunger and Eating

  Hospitality, Vol. 26, No. 9   When Eve arrived at her home in the center of Eden from the “Howdy Do Crossroads,” she had a sheet wrapped around her body. Everyone came out to look at her new attractiveness. The sheet was white as snow. Eve wore a funny-looking pointed hat on the top [...]

Hunger & Gifts: The Jesus Prayer, Part II

Hospitality, Vol. 26, No. 8 Date:   Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for LovingJustice They shall be satisfied.   “I am the bread of life.” Then the Snake came to him and said, “If you are God’s Beloved boy, order these stones to turn into bread.” But Jesus answered, “The scripture says, ‘Human [...]

Hunger & Gifts: The Jesus Prayer, Part I

Hospitality, August 2007, Vol. 26, No. 7 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for LovingJustice They shall be satisfied. Jesus, The Human One Pastor Loring, Pastor Loring, There is a Famine in the Land. Sister Durant, 1976 Give us this day our daily bread. Jesus the Jew   There is no such thing as [...]

The Noble and Nobel Prizes: Sister Durant and Dr. Amartya Sen

  Hospitality vol. 18, no. 1   We had a garbage strike in Atlanta in 1977, I think it was.  Randy Dempsey and I did organizing in our neighborhood and around the city.  We were concerned for the Garbage Collectors and knew they needed money for food while striking for justice. I had been giving [...]

Entering the World of the Homeless: Hungry and Angry

Hospitality, vol. 15, no.3 (Editor’s note: The following piece is a transcription of a lecture given by Ed Loring at Denison University as part of their Goodspeed Lecture Series on October 10, 1995.)   I come before you on this evening as one of 60 people, who live at the Open Door Community in downtown [...]

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 [...]