Hospitality is a spiritual practice involving receptivity, reverence, and generosity. It can change our lives and our communities.
In case you missed our new video earlier this summer, here it is again. It’s just 4 minutes long, and gives a good sense of the spirit of Wicker Park Grace! Towards the end of the video you’ll see me breaking bread and talking about the meaning of communion. That week I called the communion …
Every once in awhile, someone finds me on facebook to tell me what it was like to read my book. I love that and I’m so grateful that something I’ve created helps people. Despite having “hospitality” as the title, the book is really about how to become a more loving, whole person. One reader wrote …
“If you have a situation that seems endless and is a negative situation, don’t wait for a Gandhi, don’t wait for a King, don’t wait for a Mandela. “You are your own Mandela; you are your own Gandhi; you are your own King. You know your issues; you know your concerns, and you know the …
Wicker Park Grace was started with grants from the Presbyterian Church (USA) as a “new church development (NCD).” Seven years of annually smaller and smaller grants end this year. The initial idea was to start a church in a new way, maybe a “church without walls.” Something that would be more resonant with millennial people. …
In my book on Hospitality-the sacred art, I have a chapter devoted to hospitality to our enemies. These are two words we don’t put together in our heads (or our practice) very often. Hospitality. Enemies. The idea is very akin to the Jesus concepts of “Love your enemies,” “pray for those who persecute you.” When …