Allison Backous Troy: Hospitality is more than entertainment
While writing about hospitality, an author wrestles with questions about who belongs at the table.
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While writing about hospitality, an author wrestles with questions about who belongs at the table.
A parent’s desire to guarantee a child’s success prevents the child’s own development -- and is not the way God parents us, says a theologian and mother.
As we enter a new chapter in the life of the church, an author and professor works to answer the question: "How do we help those who no longer need a God encounter the living God in their lives?"
Singing draws people together, comforts the grieving, motivates and inspires. But most of all, it gives us hope, writes a Baptist pastor emeritus and singer.
Predictability and transparency help people know how to do their work and why decisions have been made. And they set the stage to create a sense of agency, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
When churches struggle to change their habits, stopping everything can open a way forward, says a church planter and pastor.
Latinx Protestants defy expectations on issues like immigration, write two sociologists.
Our individual and institutional structures, budgets and calendars reflect our true priorities, writes the managing director of Alban at Duke Divinity School.
Community and connection are the antidotes to loneliness, says an educator and writer. Hospitality can help bring about that healing.
When a pastor and his congregation found that their practice of daily Bible study was not working for them anymore, they adapted their spiritual formation.