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Hospitality

FreerangeFriday: Bread and Tables

by Lilly Lewin August 16, 2024

By Lilly Lewin For the past several weeks, the weekly Gospel reading for Sunday has focused us on bread . We’ve been looking at Jesus as the Bread of Life….Jesus…

August 16, 2024

Clean Monday

by Christine Sine March 20, 2024

by Diane Woodrow I did a piece last year for Clean Monday and only just remembered as the ideas fell into my head to write a piece this year This…

March 20, 2024

Hospitality

Being a Host/Hostess

by Christine Sine November 30, 2023

On a recent visit to the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ, I discovered an interesting phenomenon. There were Giant Cardonas who had various cacti growing in their crevices. The…

November 30, 2023

Hospitality

The Gift of Hospitality From God

by Christine Sine November 25, 2023

by Ron Friesen Hospitality is a word that extends an invitation – an invitation to come in, to converse, to spend some time together. Hospitality is usually an invitation to…

November 25, 2023

Hospitality

International Friendship Day

by Christine Sine July 20, 2023

by Carol Dixon Happy International Friendship day! What a lovely reason to think of all our friends across the globe today and remember them in our prayers. I am blest…

July 20, 2023

Celtic spirituality Hospitality

Celtic Hospitality and Welcome

by Hilary Horn June 29, 2023

By Rev. Brenda G. Warren — The early medieval people of the British Isles were known for hospitality, of being willing to open their home where food, laughter, love, and…

June 29, 2023

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Hospitality and Listening

by Christine Sine June 28, 2023

Lynne Baab — Lynne Baab’s book, The Power of Listening: Building Skills for Mission and Ministry , focuses on the many ways listening undergirds congregational life. She discusses many obstacles to…

June 28, 2023

Hospitality

Soft & Sacred

by Christine Sine June 14, 2023

by Jenny Gehman *Reprinted with permission from Anabaptist World magazine, AnabaptistWorld.org.* My husband and I (and a host of others) have lived in our home for 27 years. Let’s just…

June 14, 2023

Hospitality

Borders, Boundaries, and Barbed Wire

by Christine Sine June 10, 2023

By Jenny Gehman reprinted with permission from Anabaptist World magazine My mother wore a large safety pin on her shirt every day for four years — the years when Donald…

June 10, 2023

Hospitality

Holy Host

by Christine Sine May 30, 2023

By Jenny Gehman reprinted with permission from Anabaptist World magazine It was during my recent weeping years, as I’ve come to call them, that God introduced himself to me in…

May 30, 2023

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