STREET TEACHERS
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ongoing study and learning are crucial
to the path of discipleship. The Open Door Community offers numerous opportunities to explore and reflect on the world around us – and to put that knowledge into practice. What lessons can we learn when the people of the streets and prisons are our teachers? How do the streets and prisons shape our bible study and our understanding of the world? How can we draw insight from the arts, literature and music? What happens when we look at the world through the eyes of those on the margins?
the community makes time
for deep reflection, as it is the essential food for a lifelong journey. Here are just a few examples.
clarification of thought
is a tuesday evening gathering at the Open Door Community to which all are invited. Featured speakers explore such themes as the civil rights movement, feminist theology, and peace and justice issues. Spirited discussions ensue among the participants, who come from all walks of life – the seminary, the street, the office.
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the open door press publishes books on poverty, race, gender, history, and theology – some of which are read in seminary and university courses. The readership for Open Door books includes students, prisoners, and seekers worldwide. Recent titles include A Work of Hospitality: The Open Door Reader (edited by Pete Gathje), I Hear Hope Banging on My Back Door: Writings from Hospitality (by Ed Loring), Christ Comes in the Stranger’s Guise (by Pete Gathje), and Frances Pauley: Stories of Struggle and Triumph (edited by Murphy Davis). These books are available from the Open Door Community. |
hospitality, the free newspaper of the Open Door Community,
goes out monthly to over ten thousand recipients worldwide. Subscribers include university libraries, homeless friends, prisoners, students, churches, corporations, and interested people around the world. Hospitality chronicles developments in the peace and justice movement, homelessness, and prisons, as well as book reviews, poetry, biblical scholarship, and reflections on discipleship. Readers, whose letters are a lively monthly feature, call Hospitality “challenging” and “a lifeline.”
reflection time is built into the daily life
and fabric of the Open Door Community. For this reason, students often arrange internships and work/study experiences with the community. With an extensive community library, stimulating reflections before meals, and a comfortable reading room stocked with periodicals, the Open Door offers ample space for learning. In addition, community members regularly retreat and study at Dayspring Farm, a rustic mountain retreat in north Georgia.