Mudhouse Sabbath Session 3 - Hospitality - Book Excerpt

For those of us, who do not have the book, here is a link to a portion of Lauren Winner's book regarding the practice of hospitality:

Spirituality and Practice: Book Excerpt: Mudhouse Sabbath, by Lauren Winner

A sneak peak:

Sociologists might suggest that Jews do hospitality so well because they have spent so many centuries being the stranger and the friendless.

And...

Early Christian communities continued these practices of hospitality, attempting to feed the poor, host travelers, visit the imprisoned, invite widows and orphans to join them at mealtime — all expressions of a capacious notion of hospitality.