Work of Hospitality

Announcing a 20th-anniversary collection of essays from Hospitality, the community newspaper!

Former Open Door volunteer Peter R. Gathje has selected more than 100 essays from 20 years of publication, covering homelessness, work with prisoners, sacraments, the community’s saints and martyrs, and the theology of hospitality—the theme that plays through all 384 pages. “Hospitality was the work that called us,” writes Murphy Davis in the opening selection, “Five Years at 910,” recalling the first Christmas at the Open Door (in 1981) and the battles with roaches and grime at the still-occupied prewar apartment building at 910 Ponce de Leon Avenue.

Other major contributors include Ed Loring and Elizabeth Dede, yet more than a dozen writers and poets are represented, along with the photography of Calvin Kimbrough. The volume, available for a suggested contribution of $15—although, as always, for those without these resources, the book will be sent free of charge—also includes:

Introduction and afterword by Peter Gathje, tracing the Open Door’s roots in the Catholic Worker movement
Reading list and bibliography
Open Door timeline
Subject and name index
Scripture index

Order Form
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Synopsis
Click here to read a synopsis of the book in Adobe PDF format.


	A Work of Hospitality: The Open Door Reader, 1982–2002



	Announcing a 20th-anniversary collection of essays from Hospitality, the community newspaper! Former Open Door volunteer Peter R. Gathje has selected more than 100 essays from 20 years of publication, covering homelessness, work with prisoners, sacraments, the community’s saints and martyrs, and the theology of hospitality—the theme that plays through all 384 pages. “Hospitality was the work that called us,” writes Murphy Davis in the opening selection, “Five Years at 910,” recalling the first Christmas at the Open Door (in 1981) and the battles with roaches and grime at the still-occupied prewar apartment building at 910 Ponce de Leon Avenue. Other major contributors include Ed Loring and Elizabeth Dede, yet more than a dozen writers and poets are represented, along with the photography of Calvin Kimbrough. The volume, available for a suggested contribution of $15—although, as always, for those without these resources, the book will be sent free of charge—also includes: Introduction and afterword by Peter Gathje, tracing the Open Door’s roots in the Catholic Worker movement Reading list and bibliography Open Door timeline Subject and name index Scripture index Order Form Click here to view/print a book order form. Synopsis Click here to read a synopsis of the book in Adobe PDF format.