Hospitality, vol 30, no 5 Editor’s note: This “Final Call” will be followed next month by a dose of realism: “The Institutionalization of the Homeless.” Please allow me to offer a word of introduction using a poem by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova: It is not with the lyre of someone in love [...]
I wrote this prayer for the 4th Annual King Holiday Human Rights Prayer Breakfast on January 12, 2007. This wonderful breakfast brought together some jailbirds who were flying high in love. We gathered to hew a tunnel of hope, equality, love and justice — out of the mountain of grave granite gangsterism which has taken [...]
January 1, 1997 – 5:59 pm
Hospitality Vol. 16, no. 1 “The homeless need help, not housing.” This is the new slogan among many who want to drive the homeless from our city. They do this under the guise of law and order, while keeping their right eye on the “bottom line” which is profit no matter what the social [...]
September 1, 1994 – 6:02 pm
Hospitality vol. 13, no. 9 The Lord said to the people of God, “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths and where the best road is. Walk in it, and you will live in peace.” (Jeremiah 6:16) Today we stand at a crossroads, and we look about us. [...]
January 1, 1994 – 5:46 pm
Part V: Housing Precedes Life Hospitality vol.13, no.1 Visitation Not long ago I was making a number of pastoral visits on the streets of Atlanta. I walked up to a vacant lot near Spring and 14th Streets and saw a friend. George was sitting on a wall that was, years earlier, the foundation [...]
Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series on the questions: Why do people live in houses? PartI: Housing is a Basic Necessity for Survival I’ve heard newborn babies wailin’ like a mornin’ dove And old men with broken teeth stranded without love Do I understand your question, man, [...]
Part II: How do we find access to shelter? Hospitality vol. 11, no. 4 Editor’s note: The following piece is the second of a series on the question, “Why Do People Live In Houses?” ‘Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of [...]
January 1, 1991 – 7:51 pm
Hospitality vol.10, no.1 We humans do not know what the future holds for us even though we have proposed systems, terms, and interpretations to limit, contain and predict it. Fate, destiny, progress, predestination, contracts, “till death do us part,” prisons, health clubs and spas, frozen embryos, and insurance are all words and institutions designed [...]
Hospitality vol. 9, no. 4 Editor’s note: Ed Loring prepared this proposal for the Ponce de Leon Revitalization committee. Many folk in our neighborhood are concerned about the homeless folk. Together we can respond in love and justice building a better business climate and a more just city for the poor and oppressed. [...]
January 1, 1990 – 5:45 pm
Hospitality vol.9, no.1 The Gospel calls us to act. Obedience to God’s will necessarily includes presenting our bodies as living sacrifices, or as Jim Wallis paraphrases it, put your bodies where your doctrines are. Presently we are involved with four issues which take us into the streets. First, the Vagrant Free Zone raised [...]
