Friends may find this title puzzling. I like having people over. Not everyone likes people looking around their home much less someone creating high flames in their kitchen. One shy teammate once shook her head at me. “It’s all like water off a du...

In Romans 12, Paul is laying out a blueprint for how Christians should conduct themselves, what their relationships with other believers should look like, and how they should treat those outside the faith. He gives examples of what loving others a...

When I moved to Russia, I realized I didn't have the gift of hospitality. This fact became abundantly clear the night of the big flood.

Late in the Ugandan afternoons, when (…most of) the homeschool supplies had been shelved and as dinner simmered, a friend of our househelp would come in the gate, leaning her hoe against the brick wall of our compound before she began her trek dow...