Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-134) and indexes.
Contents:
From many parts, a whole -- In honor of Letty Mandeville Russell -- Following the clues -- Why hospitality? -- On being a misfit : embracing hospitality -- In but still out -- Making sense of myself -- Living on the margins -- Becoming a feminist -- The gift of not fitting -- Church inside out -- Church in the round -- One call, many ministries -- Ministry of hospitality -- Hospitality -- Difference -- The new hospitality -- Postcolonial interpretation -- Postcolonial subjects -- Postcolonial theological perspectives -- Doctrine of election in postcolonial interpretation -- When election is a problem -- The ambiguity of chosenness -- Feminism and hospitality in postcolonial interpretation -- A feminist hermeneutic of hospitality -- Postcolonial subjects practicing hospitality -- Riotous difference as God's gift to the church -- Biblical views of difference -- Babel's gift of difference -- Pentecost's gift of understanding -- A different kind of unity -- Unity-in-tension -- Unity in hospitality -- Community of Christ -- The source of unity -- Liberating difference -- Reframing a theology of hospitality -- Framing and reframing -- Making a change -- Steps to reframing -- God's hospitality : reframing safety in biblical tradition -- The meaning of safe space -- Searching the scriptures for safe space -- Reframing a text : Ruth's story -- Attending to context -- Developing a spirituality of listening -- Just hospitality -- Unequally yoked -- Justice in "just" hospitality -- Amos's message -- Justice as hospitality in worship -- Hospitality in just hospitality -- Welcome as a metaphor for action -- Transforming God's welcome -- Recognizing just hospitality -- Limits -- Essential characteristics.
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