Category Archives: Social Justice

Hospitality & God’s Abundance, Pt. 2

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Fred

The numerous images of God’s kingdom associated with God’s abundance and hospitality that Jesus used leads me to believe that Jesus and his followers were to be a kind of living parable of how people live together from God’s abundance. … Continue reading →

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Hospitality & God’s Abundance

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Fred

Yesterday morning as I surveyed Jesus’ teachings about the inbreaking presence of God’s kingdom, it becomes clearer to me how the images of God’s kingdom are associated with stories about provision of life’s necessities, generosity, neighborly and enemy love, controversial … Continue reading →

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Hospitality in Context, Part 2

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Fred

When our society speaks of hospitality today, we do not normally think of a kinship love for strangers, which is the meaning of philoxenia, the biblical Greek word usually translated as “hospitality.” We live in a culture of xenophobia—a fear … Continue reading →

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Hospitality in Context: Introduction

Posted on September 27, 2021 by Fred

A few years ago our Church eldership publicly denounced what was, at the time, the refusal to offer due process for asylum seekers. After listening to many in the WCC fam we registered with a few regional organizations to sponsor … Continue reading →

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Voluntary Ignorance

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Fred

I’ve been thinking about John Wesley and how he is remembered as a faithful and “successful” evangelist of the 18th Century. In 1731 he began to limit his expenses so that he would have more money to give to the … Continue reading →

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