Tag Archives: Reduce the distance

The Cry of Poor: Cracking White Male Supremacy (Part 13) Love in Action: What Can We Do?

Hospitality,vol. 29, no. 1   Editor’s note: This is the thirteenth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. We as a people are cursed. We the people: African-Aamericans, women of all races, American Indians, Latinos, Asian-Americans, children, the poor, gays [...]

The Cry of the Poor Cracking White Male Supremacy – An Incendiary and Militant Proposal (Part 10)

  Vol. 28, No. 6 Editor’s note: This is the tenth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series.   The cry of the poor is a call to reduce the distance among us into the solidarity of shared life for [...]

The Cry of the Poor: Cracking White Male Supremacy – An Incendiary and Militant Proposal (Part 2)

Hospitality, Vol. 27 No. 9   Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University in March 2006 as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series.   Listen, please. We turn our ears and eyes to one of the great prophets in the American [...]

Motorcycle Diaries: Musings on a Film

  Hospitality, vol. 24, no. 2   The Parable of the Sower   “Listen!  Once there was a worker who went out to sow corn.  As she scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.  Some of it fell on rocky ground, [...]

Street Scenes

Hospitality vol. 7, no. 3   As a little boy in the Baptist Church Sunday School in Birmingham, Alabama, I heard the story. “God,” said the Sunday School teacher (who was much like my third grade teacher but older, and she gave us cookies just before the loud clang of the dismissal bell). Yes, she [...]

Atlanta Police Sweep Woodruff Park Without a Dustpan

  Hospitality Vol.15, no.11   We were just sitting there listening to Ron Jackson tell his story of struggle and triumph as a Black  man in America when eleven of  us were arrested.  Although no one in our group knew what time it was, the arresting officer told us, later, that it was 11:52 p.m. [...]

Entering the World of the Homeless: Hungry and Angry

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 [...]

LABOR POOLS: Holy Places in the Belly of the Beast

  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 [...]