I naturally noted your own Substack, "Political Devotions" in the endnotes. - You lend your own emphasis to some of these points in ways I always find thought-provoking. So thanks in turn!
Woah! Thank you. If my need for great resources fails again, allowing me to skip the "Notes and reading," my vanity henceforth should carry me through. (BTW, my copy of The Future of Nostalgia, which I think will help my liturgical writing, should be here in a week.)
Yes! Great reference. Letty Russell taught at Yale Divinity for years, the seminary I attended. Russell emphasized hospitality as justice in action—not a passive reception, but a mutual partnership that addresses unequal power--a welcome that confronts injustice rather than glossing over it. - Thanks so much for reminding me of her! She was one of the world’s foremost feminist theologians!
I am also a YDS grad. MDiv, tho I never pursued a pastoral ministry. Letty’s “practicum” a small group engaged in action/reflection, was a much needed grounding, esp since I spent the rest of my time with Cornel West. On hospitality, I spent my career in housing and food systems. Why I’m liking this dialogue.
I wish I could have been a fly on a wall at "Pray for Peace—anyway.” Mondays, 7 p.m., 2515 Kemper Rd. Actually, I would like to have participated. You make me realize that a few of the books I've been reading are largely about the assembly life in movements--the tedium, the adjustments, the invention (in Aristotle's sense), and not least, the hospitality (and sometimes the lack of it) when new people come. Online forums and targeted prayer meetings face similar challenges for similarly promising results and relationships. And what better way to use our interest in what happens far away from us than to create a local meeting for prayer and discussion around it. Wrestling some local life away from our national trance!
So many good lines here, but I'll set out my three current favorites: "The stranger becomes a stand-in for something more intimate: the loss of place, identity, or control." "Policy works best when it resonates in neighborhoods and reflects our own sense of self." "The deeper work isn't in headlines but in neighborhoods, where contradiction meets recognition—and welcome begins." (Especially that "where contradiction meets recognition" phrase.) The entire article gives all three of these gems a generous and welcoming setting.
I naturally noted your own Substack, "Political Devotions" in the endnotes. - You lend your own emphasis to some of these points in ways I always find thought-provoking. So thanks in turn!
Woah! Thank you. If my need for great resources fails again, allowing me to skip the "Notes and reading," my vanity henceforth should carry me through. (BTW, my copy of The Future of Nostalgia, which I think will help my liturgical writing, should be here in a week.)
This is a great dialogue, also a good reading list. Thanks.
My mentor Letty Russell’s last book’s title, Just Hospitality, speaks at once to humility of practice and a deep sense of justice and how it works.
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Yes! Great reference. Letty Russell taught at Yale Divinity for years, the seminary I attended. Russell emphasized hospitality as justice in action—not a passive reception, but a mutual partnership that addresses unequal power--a welcome that confronts injustice rather than glossing over it. - Thanks so much for reminding me of her! She was one of the world’s foremost feminist theologians!
I am also a YDS grad. MDiv, tho I never pursued a pastoral ministry. Letty’s “practicum” a small group engaged in action/reflection, was a much needed grounding, esp since I spent the rest of my time with Cornel West. On hospitality, I spent my career in housing and food systems. Why I’m liking this dialogue.
Wonderful!
I wish I could have been a fly on a wall at "Pray for Peace—anyway.” Mondays, 7 p.m., 2515 Kemper Rd. Actually, I would like to have participated. You make me realize that a few of the books I've been reading are largely about the assembly life in movements--the tedium, the adjustments, the invention (in Aristotle's sense), and not least, the hospitality (and sometimes the lack of it) when new people come. Online forums and targeted prayer meetings face similar challenges for similarly promising results and relationships. And what better way to use our interest in what happens far away from us than to create a local meeting for prayer and discussion around it. Wrestling some local life away from our national trance!
So many good lines here, but I'll set out my three current favorites: "The stranger becomes a stand-in for something more intimate: the loss of place, identity, or control." "Policy works best when it resonates in neighborhoods and reflects our own sense of self." "The deeper work isn't in headlines but in neighborhoods, where contradiction meets recognition—and welcome begins." (Especially that "where contradiction meets recognition" phrase.) The entire article gives all three of these gems a generous and welcoming setting.