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 [...]
Hospitality, August 2007, Vol. 26, No. 7 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for LovingJustice They shall be satisfied. Jesus, The Human One Pastor Loring, Pastor Loring, There is a Famine in the Land. Sister Durant, 1976 Give us this day our daily bread. Jesus the Jew There is no such thing as [...]
January 1, 2005 – 5:41 pm
Hospitality, January 2005, vol. 24, no. 1 I saw her, all but imperceptibly, in the right corner of my left eye. She was playing volleyball at the seminary picnic for new students and faculty. She had on pink shorts and an athletic shirt. Suddenly the ball soared into the paling southward sun and then [...]
Hospitality Vol. 21, no. 3 I. August 9, 27 C.E: The wind blew dust into the Baptist’s razor sharp eyes in the late afternoon. In the evening, through the bars and chains, he led a Bible study on Amos. Shortly after midnight the police entered the dungeon, beheaded him, and put his head on [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
