Hospitality Vol. 21, no. 7 On the third day Jesus rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the Right Hand of our Holy Parent, and he will come to judge the living and the dead. (Apostles’ Creed, adapted) I met Chuck Campbell, a Columbia Theological Seminary professor, and Larry [...]
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 [...]
Hospitality vol. 14 no. 6 June, 1995 I rushed downstairs at 5:10 a.m. after a fitful half-night filled with the emptiness of uneasy sleeplessness. Ralph had just poured the fifteenth gallon of coffee into the brown thermos, and big Charles Williams stood on the footstool stirring the final pot of cheese grits. CM, [...]
Hospitality vol. 14, no. 4 A Labor Pool is a holy place. If you are like me well-fed, housed, and employed, you may never have visited a Labor Pool much less turned to one for a day’s work. Labor pools are foreign territory to most of us, and Labor Pool workers are foreigners [...]
January 1, 1995 – 6:46 pm
by Ed Loring Hospitality vol. 14, no. 1 How Deep Is Billy’s Payne? I have in recent days wondered if we have an ethical issue in our city. I have noticed from newspaper reports that Presbyterian Elder Billy Payne is now making $636,000 per year for heading the Olympic Planning Committee. [...]
Hospitality, vol. 13, no. 7 Six of us stood in the largest Atlanta labor pool. Around us, practically stacked upon each other, were 200 folk, mostly men, mostly African American. Some lay crouched along the wall, trying to fetch the sleep always denied the homeless wanderer in this city so filled with fear and [...]
Hospitality vol.9, no.6 People for Urban Justice is a social action group composed of homeless folk and their advocates, ministers, lawyers and others. We meet once a week to discuss and act on issues of justice and peace in the city of Atlanta among rich and poor, African American and white, and men and women. [...]
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 [...]
vol.8, no.4 Ed W. sat on the wooden bench alone. Soaking wet, cold, and exhausted, he looked his part. Ed W. and six others were visiting the poor and homeless on the streets of Atlanta, Georgia. Together these seven had stepped out of their ordinary daily lives and entered the terrain of the pariahs of [...]
November 1, 1985 – 3:23 pm
Hospitality vol. 4, no. 7 Waiting on Bus #2 5:25 am. I was standing at the dark corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Barnett Street. Across the street a lonely prostitute waved to the fast moving eastbound traffic. The wind blew cold even in October. The lightless liquor store stood silent, waiting for the [...]
