For the Christian, the matter of hospitality would seem to be straightforward, a given. But lately, the word hospitality sums up the challenge of discipleship.

Arnold Glasow sums up hospitality: “Hospitality is making others feel at home. Some folks make you feel at home. Others make you wish you were.” All kidding aside, hospitality is serious business. So ...

Imagine a world where everyone’s hearts and homes were open to others in need, where nobody was excluded from a feast, even those often overlooked. A world where the poor and marginalized were not ...

I grew up in what you would call an “ethnic” household. I heard another language being spoken in the house daily. My family carried on many Eastern European traditions that were comforting and normal ...

On July 4, we celebrate the notion that we, the people of the United States of America, will wake up in a free country. We may gather with friends and family members to celebrate this great nation, ...

We often focus on caring for our own, yet the biblical call to hospitality echoes throughout the Scriptures. Leviticus commands us to love the stranger as ourselves. Isaiah pictures God setting a ...

The power of introverted hospitality in an extroverted world of church ministry. Perhaps the most difficult area for me as an introverted Christian woman and pastor’s wife has been the biblical call ...

In her book entitled Mudhouse Sabbath, Lauren Winner shares about her first encounter with Christian hospitality: Few situations make me as uncomfortable as being a newcomer in a church where I know ...

Learning to tolerate one another. This is a chief aim of civics education in K-12 schools. It’s become the status quo. But, according to David Smith, director of the Kuyers Institute for Christian ...

Currently there are more than 300000 churches in america and many of those churches have food service ministries, that’s why the Global Association of Christian Hospitality Professionals was formed, ...