An Easter community inspires mutual welcome between strangers

What does it mean to be Easter people, a people who have seen Christ embrace us from atop a cross in spite of our sin?  It means accepting God’s hospitable invitation to new way of being community for one another. In a recent Christian Century article, ethicist Christine Pohl states that a best practice for buildingContinue reading “An Easter community inspires mutual welcome between strangers”

Hospitality is a much-needed spiritual discipline in churches

With many people never darkening the doors of churches these days, it is becoming important to reinvest in hospitality as a spiritual discipline in the life of our congregations in order to reach out to those who have yet to visit. Hospitality is the biblical and theological discipline in which we welcome people–strange, friend, foe,Continue reading “Hospitality is a much-needed spiritual discipline in churches”