by Christina Embree | Sep 5, 2017 | Opinion
A young boy, probably 3 or 4, was walking behind an adult man, presumably his father, down the street the other day. They were dressed the same, in khaki shorts and a white shirt, and the little guy was imitating the adult’s every move. My first thought was,...
by Suzie Lahoud | Jul 28, 2017 | Opinion
The week that the controversial U.S. travel and immigration ban was first issued, I sat in my living room in Lebanon with a Syrian woman whose water had broken in her seventh month of pregnancy. Both she and the baby were now at risk. Yet, she came, not for medical...
by Mary Splawn | Mar 8, 2017 | Opinion
A passion for food and hospitality combined at Mountain Brook Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to make a global impact. In 2010, a group of women combined a love for food, the gift of hospitality and the desire to support the church’s mission endeavors to...
by Ruth Rosell | Mar 2, 2017 | Opinion
Hospitality to strangers is an integral part of the Christian faith tradition. Marjorie Thompson, in her 2005 book, “Soul Feast,” states it was “a hallmark of virtue for ancient Jews and Christians.” The writer of Hebrews holds up...
by Matthew Hensley | May 18, 2016 | Opinion
New England captured my imagination from the first time I visited as a child. It was geographically far away from South Carolina and may as well have been a different country given the architecture, weather, behavior and the tendency to neglect the “R” in...
