Tag Archives: Hospitality

The Wednesday Report

  Hospitality,  vol. 22, no. 5   I.          Giving and Receiving In all this I have given you an example that by such work [manual labor with no desire for riches or fashionable clothes] we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, ‘It is more blessed to give [...]

Pentecost: Undoing Christmas A Meditation On Acts 2:1-21 & 42-47

Hospitality vol. 19, no. 8   Pentecost is the birthday of the Church of Jesus Christ.  The church is the mystical body of Jesus.  The church is the lives of disciples, past, present and future who take up their cross and follow him.  The church is to believe and do what Jesus did,  yea—even works [...]

I Hear Hope Banging on My Back Door Part IX: Vision and Solidarity

Hospitality vol. 14, no. 2   “Justice is important, but supper is essential”   On a clear, cold and crisp December night in 1956, Hal Beaver hunkered over the Myers Park High School twenty-yard line.  On the command “uagahee,” Paul Anderson snapped the pigskin to Hal.  I darted from the right end of the line [...]

All God’s Children Gotta Have Shoes

Hospitality vol. 2, no. 1   Not long ago I stood beside our dying house guest Lonnie Moss. Lonnie was eaten up by cancer and had been moved from our home to Grady Hospital. On this particular day Lonnie was tied to his bed by leather wrist cuffs. The sheets twisted around his legs as [...]