August 1, 1996 – 10:23 pm
Hospitality vol. 15, no. 8 On Monday, June 17, 1996, forty of us went to City Hall to stage a demonstration. We called on the Mayor and City Council to build permanent public toilets for the citizens of Atlanta. We began with 10 of us sitting on old toilets in front of City Hall. [...]
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 . 12. no. 7 Central to the Christian life is sabbath rest: The Lord says, “If you treat the Sabbath as sacred and do not pursue your own interests on that day; if you value my holy day and honor it by not traveling, working, or talking idly on that day, then you [...]
Hospitality, vol. 11, no.5 James Madison was a founder of the mainline American political tradition. He was a graduate of Princeton College, where he was deeply influenced by the Reformed- Presbyterian Theologian John Witherspoon. Through the writings and lectures of Rev. Witherspoon, James Madison found in Calvinistic thought a resource for understanding and responding [...]
Hospitality vol.9, no.5 Atlanta, Georgia has on most days and nights 11,374 homeless men, women, boys and girls. The solutions for this terrible sin and capitalism’s most flagrant failure are: (1) affordable housing, (2) a living wage plus benefits for all workers including part-time and temporary, (3) free housing for those who cannot work, [...]
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 [...]
Hospitality vol. 7, no. 4 Editor’s note: Ed Loring addressed a crowd of 10,000 homeless people and their advocates at the Rally in Atlanta on February 27, 1988. The following is the text of his speech. Welcome to the streets. Welcome to the Vagrant Free Zone. Welcome to these public toilets-Pee for Free [...]
