All posts about ‘hospitality’
More on how Mother's Day can go wrong in churches
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
A belated link to this additional reflection about Mother’s Day in churches (more here): This Sunday will be Mother’s Day, a holiday invented for a political purpose but hijacked by florists and greeting card companies. Whether or not it should matter to us, Mother’s Day can make us feel euphoric or lonely, delighted or disappointed. [...]
Tags: congregations, holidays, hospitality, mothersday, pain
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Alban Weekly: 'Who Locked the Gates?'
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
From Alban Weekly: Over the years I have heard countless painful stories about how people new to a congregation couldn’t get through the “gates” of the church—those implicit codes and requirements that those of us “inside” the church unwittingly embody and construct as barriers toward them. These include unspoken dress codes, being made to feel [...]
Tags: community, congregations, evangelism, hospitality, outreach
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