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Title: Making Room: Recovering Hospitality As a Christian Tradition by Christine D. Pohl ISBN: 0-8028-4431-6 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Too much of an okay thing
Comment: I picked this book up because it was suggested "in addition" to another book on hospitality that I read recently and thought was life-changing. This book is very good, it includes interesting and thoughtful ideas and it is pretty well written. I couldn't shake the feeling that I was reading some academic paper prepared in graduate school. While I liked the book fine and it definitely worth reading, I think if fails to measure up to some other books on the market right now. I would certainly suggest it for anyone doing academic work, preparing for a class or inventing some church program.
Rating: 5
Summary: Making Room - an action agenda for the faith community
Comment: It is hard to know where to start. The book is elegantly written, it is full of interesting history of the early church. But more importantly, it speaks to a deadness in the church today. Often members of the church have learned to live distant from problems of their "neighbors" be they down the block or down the street in the challenged neighborhoods in our cities.
In the early church, members were the challenged people, they reached out to each other, but now much of the church is isolated and distant from the needy stranger. Read Luke 14 - decide if you have responded to principles in those scenarios described by Jesus. If you come up short, then this book will help with a compassionate analysis of our dilemma in reaching out to "the least of these."
In addition to setting the stage for individuals to learn to reach out to needy strangers, the book creates a context for the faith-based social service discussion. While members of congregations may not exhibit the skills of professional social workers, they have an important role to play in being present and responding to neigbors in their communities who need the touch of grace in their lives.
The book is a good read, but it requires more than one pass. If you invest in the book deeply, you will be called to action.
Rating: 5
Summary: Insightful and provocative
Comment: I read this book in preparation to interviewing Dr. Pohl for a magazine. It's terrific -- a thoughtful examination of practices that used to be considered an essential component of the Christian faith but which have, over the years, been institutionalized and removed from our everyday lives. How do we recapture the Biblical imperative toward hospitality in the reality of a modern world? This book doesn't give pat answers, but it does give you a framework for asking the right questions, and some suggestions that might point you in the right direction.
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Title: A Christian View of Hospitality: Expecting Surprises (The Giving Project Series) by Michele Hershberger, Christine D. Pohl ISBN: 0836191099 Publisher: Herald Pr Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love by Lonni Collins Pratt, Daniel Homan ISBN: 1557253099 Publisher: Paraclete Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Widening the Welcome of Your Church: Biblical Hospitality & the Vital Congregation by Fred Bernhard, Steve Clapp, H. Fred Bernhard ISBN: 0963720694 Publisher: Christian Community Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Gift of Hospitality: In Church, in the Home, in All of Life by Delia Halverson ISBN: 0827212437 Publisher: Chalice Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Life on the Vine: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit in Christian Community by Philip D. Kenneson ISBN: 0830822194 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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