The Odyssey, Hospitality, and the Right of Strangers
American Christians should follow the example of Odysseus’s hosts and love our immigrant neighbors.
Hospitality and the Weight of Moralism in Amazon’s Jack Ryan
Taking the high road is easy if you’re a pharisee. It’s harder if you’re a utilitarian. Jack Ryan is (un)lucky in that he’s both.
Station Eleven: The Virtue of Risky Hospitality and Making Monsters into Friends
Rebuilding civilization requires hospitality to strangers, whether they show up cold and dirty on your doorstep, or warm and tiny in your womb.
Don’t Throw Away Your Nativity Sets: Why Jesus May Not Have Been Born in a “Lower Room”
Jesus’s birth is a breach of human hospitality, not an example of it.
The Gospel Comes with a House Key by Rosaria Butterfield, Free for CAPC Members
Butterfield isn’t proposing hospitality without personal boundaries, but hospitality that is open to having those boundaries widened for the sake of the gospel.
Hope in My Earbuds: A Tribute to the Gilmore Guys
For Kevin Porter of Gilmore Guys, hospitality looked like a podcast with a posture of welcome and inclusion.
Christian Hospitality and the Abortion Industry
It is not enough to call for the defunding of Planned Parenthood; Christians must continue to take the call to show hospitality seriously.
Anthony Bourdain and the Dangerous Empathy of Food
Maybe, if we are willing to share a table with somebody, we will understand them. We’ll love them. “They,” who ever they are, won’t be other after a meal—they’ll be “us.”
