Topic: Hospitality

An ancient icon of the Trinity shows us a table of radical hospitality — and calls us not just to sit at it, but to become it.

In both the Christian church as well as the wider world, there is increasing division. Is there a way we can become genuine peacemakers in both church and world?

Even in the face of a catastrophic collapse of the world as we know it, God calls us to imagine and invest in a beautiful future.

In the face of social breakdown and environmental catastrophe, we are called, not to angry protest, but to creative expressions of love, compassion, and hospitality.

The Church born when God poured out the Holy Spirit, is one in which barriers of ethnicity, language, sex, age, and social status are transcended and all are equal in Christ.

All-in commitment is unfashionable, but it is often what God needs from us to allow the richest blessings to flow.

Living water is for all of us that would like to try it. When we try it, our lives change and instead of being thirsty we become a spring. As a result, our neighbours can try it too.

In baptism we are adopted into a new family that is radically inclusive of those who have been cut off.

God’s Providence usually works by people, moved by the Spirit of God, sharing when they have more above their own needs.

God comes to us in unexpected ways, and the break with conventional religious respectability is even more earth-shattering than the break with conventional reproductive biology.

Jesus seeks out and embraces the outcasts, taking upon himself the hatred and hostility that had been directed at them.

Jesus challenges us to bring our lives to where God is active, to share in building the kingdom of God.