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Lecture Title - Practicing Hospitality in Troubled Times Offering hospitality to strangers was a distinctive feature of ancient Christian life. The biblical texts and tradition, Jesus' practice and explicit teachings, and the needs of the ancient church and world combined to make hospitality a central aspect of Christian discipleship. In the last 500 years, transformative understandings of hospitality have been mostly lost, and with them, some crucial insights into Christian witness, social ministry and congregational life. Giving fresh attention to an ancient practice allows us to see the close connection between theology and everyday life, and offers promise and challenge to the contemporary church. Christine D. Pohl (PhD Emory University) was Professor Emerita of Church and Society/Christian Ethics at Asbury Theological Seminary. She authored several books including Living into Community: Cultivating Practices that Sustain Us (Eerdmans, 2011) and Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition (25th Anniversary edition) (Eerdmans, 2024). The Henry Center for Theological Understanding provides theological resources that help bridge the gap between the academy and the church. It houses a cluster of initiatives, each of which is aimed at applying practical Christian wisdom to important kingdom issuesfor the good of the church, for the soul of the theological academy, for the sake of the world, and ultimately for the glory of God. The HCTU seeks to ground each of these initiatives in Scripture, and it pursues these goals collaboratively, in order to train a new generation of wise interpreters of the Wordlay persons and scholars alikefor the sake of tomorrow's church, academy, and world. Visit the HCTU website: https://henrycenter.tiu.edu/ Subscribe to the HCTU Newsletter: https://bit.ly/326pRL5 Connect with us! https://twitter.com/henry_center https://www.facebook.com/henrycenter/ https://www.instagram.com/thehenrycenter/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/thehenrycenter