‘It good’: Hospitality in a hospital waiting room

I mean no disrespect to the faithful chaplains and hard-working administrations and certainly not to the nurses, who are nearer to the heart of God than me, by noting the incongruence between “hospital” and “hospitality” — which share a lexical root. Despite the wonderful people who work and volunteer there, hospital buildings are imposing, the halls labyrinthine, and the rooms sterile with sharp angles and harsh lighting. Hospital...