Tag Archives: Peacemaking

A Last Plea Before We Name the Institutionalization of Homelessness: The Final Call

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 [...]

God Bless America

  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 [...]

Bill Shain: My Brother In Peace and Justice

  Hospitality vol. 18, no. 4   (Editor’s note:  Bill Shain was a longtime friend of the Open Door.  He died recently, at the age of 65, after a brave struggle with cancer; Ed Loring spoke at a memorial service in Bill’s honor at ____________________ where Bill was a member.)   Blessed are the Peacemakers [...]

Peace Pentecost: Challenge and Call

Hospitality vol. 5, no. 7 (Editor’S Note: Ed Loring and Murphy Davis were Peace Pentecost preachers in Cleveland, Ohio this spring. The following sermon was preached by Ed at the Old Stone Presbyterian Church May 16, 1986).   “What God the Holy Parent considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care [...]

Christ Himself Has Brought Us Peace …

written with Carolyn Johnson Hospitality vol. 2, no. 2 Ephesians 2:14 No matter how you receive the news-whether from newspapers, the television, or radio; from sermons, conferences, conventions or rallies; from friends, preachers, teachers or politicians-it is the same news: we Americans are marching down a road to war. The evidence, of course, is everywhere: [...]