Hospitality is not so much a singular act of welcome as it is a way, an orientation that attends to otherness, listening and learning, valuing and honoring,” Amy G. Oden writes in And You Welcomed Me: A Sourcebook on Hospitality in Early Christianity. The people I look to as my spiritual heroes live this orientation. Trappist monk Thomas Merton befriended and learned from Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn. Martin Luther King,...
Hospitality with a moral punch
“Not everyone understands God in the way I understand God” is an important lesson, writes Teri McDowell Ott. Even more important: we can honor, welcome and respect those who understand God differently.
