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 [...]
Hospitality vol. 23, no. 8 By Ed Loring (Editor’s note: The following is the first of two parts of a bible study Ed presented to the Christian Community Health Fellowship during their 25th Anniversary Meeting in Atlanta on May 22, 2004. Look for the bible study’s conclusion in an upcoming Hospitality.) Setting and Location [...]
January 1, 2004 – 3:34 pm
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 [...]
Hospitality, April 2003, vol. 22, no. 4 (Editor’s note: Ed Loring, a Partner at the Open Door Community, preached the following sermon at the Seattle Mennonite Church on September 29, 2002.) The Message to Laodicea And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The words of the Amen, the faithful [...]
November 1, 2001 – 9:25 pm
Hospitality Vol. 20. no. 10 God Bless America God Bless America, land that I love Stand beside her and guide her Through the night with the light from above From the mountains to the prairies To the oceans white with foam God Bless America, my home sweet home. God Bless America, my home [...]
Hospitality Vol. 20, no.7 The Preaching of John the Baptist 1It was the fifteenth year of the rule of the Emperor Tiberius; Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod Antipas was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip was ruler of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis; Lysanias was ruler of Abilene, 2and Annas and [...]
Hospitality Vol. 20, no.6 The Preaching of John the Baptist Luke 3: 1-20 1It was the fifteenth year of the rule of the Emperor Tiberius; Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod Antipas was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip was ruler of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis; Lysanias was ruler of [...]
Hospitality Vol. 20, no. 4 Hello. My name is Thaddaeus. I was a disciple of both of them. Still am in many ways. I sit now in this dark damp dungeon with two others. We were caught trying to tear the Temple down with our bare hands. Caiaphas wants us crucified; Pilate thinks [...]
Hospitality Vol. 20, no.3 Happy 72nd Birthday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! You who lived and died by the Peace of Jesus Christ and the nonviolence of Mahatma Gandhi. We come this day, Dr. King and Jesus Christ, to rededicate our lives to the ways and aims and purposes of your teachings and [...]
February 1, 2001 – 6:20 pm
Hospitality vol. 20, no.2 One day when many tax collectors and other outcasts came to listen to Jesus, the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law started grumbling, “This man welcomes outcasts and even eats with them!” (Earlier these same sorts of folk, good religious women and men, had said he was a [...]
