Radical Hospitality
I've known that story for decades, but it has gained new meaning for me recently. I now see this familiar story to be not just a tale of an eccentric British-born Quaker, but a model for our life in Christ in the middle of a troubled and challenging world. She wouldn't have named it this way, but Lucie Stone was practicing radical hospitality. This hospitality is both a way of living in the Kingdom of God in the present moment and a way of bringing the Kingdom into its fullness for everyone, making the Kingdom complete both now and everywhere. It is radical hospitality because it stems from the very root of our relationship with God. To practice radical hospitality is to be in the world as God is in the world.
That you are reading this essay indicates that you value the religious aspect of life. Like me and many of our contemporaries, you believe that answers to, or at least guidance for, the most difficult questions and challenges we face in life can be found in the realms of spirituality and religious faith. Yet if that is so, why are the answers to those questions often so unsatisfying? I believe it is because we are too often asking the wrong questions.
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That you are reading this essay indicates that you value the religious aspect of life. Like me and many of our contemporaries, you believe that answers to, or at least guidance for, the most difficult questions and challenges we face in life can be found in the realms of spirituality and religious faith. Yet if that is so, why are the answers to those questions often so unsatisfying? I believe it is because we are too often asking the wrong questions.
Radical Hospitality
I've known that story for decades, but it has gained new meaning for me recently. I now see this familiar story to be not just a tale of an eccentric British-born Quaker, but a model for our life in Christ in the middle of a troubled and challenging world. She wouldn't have named it this way, but Lucie Stone was practicing radical hospitality. This hospitality is both a way of living in the Kingdom of God in the present moment and a way of bringing the Kingdom into its fullness for everyone, making the Kingdom complete both now and everywhere. It is radical hospitality because it stems from the very root of our relationship with God. To practice radical hospitality is to be in the world as God is in the world.
That you are reading this essay indicates that you value the religious aspect of life. Like me and many of our contemporaries, you believe that answers to, or at least guidance for, the most difficult questions and challenges we face in life can be found in the realms of spirituality and religious faith. Yet if that is so, why are the answers to those questions often so unsatisfying? I believe it is because we are too often asking the wrong questions.
That you are reading this essay indicates that you value the religious aspect of life. Like me and many of our contemporaries, you believe that answers to, or at least guidance for, the most difficult questions and challenges we face in life can be found in the realms of spirituality and religious faith. Yet if that is so, why are the answers to those questions often so unsatisfying? I believe it is because we are too often asking the wrong questions.
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| BN ID: | 2940162023531 |
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| Publisher: | Pendle Hill Publications |
| Publication date: | 06/22/2018 |
| Series: | Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #427 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 96 KB |
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