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Hostility to Hospitality
We associate hospitality with the stuffy dinner party served with the silverware that rarely leaves its cabinet in the dining room.
Jared Ayers
January 23, 2026
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We associate hospitality with the stuffy dinner party served with the silverware that rarely leaves its cabinet in the dining room.
Because the story of Jesus has become part of the cultural-holiday furniture, many don’t take Jesus any more seriously than Frosty or Rudolf.
The Tokyo-based cultural historian W. David Marx recently published a new book titled Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century. In it, he
It being the week before Halloween, I decided I’d find a copy of Frankenstein and give it a try. What I experienced was not some
Faith & Formation This year, I’ve started adjunct-teaching a class at Palm Beach Atlantic University, here in West Palm Beach, called Christian Faith & Formation.
For much of my pastoral life, I’ve conversed in living rooms, at park benches, and in bars and cafés with people wondering about Christian faith,
This piece is excerpted and adapted from Jared Ayers’ forthcoming book, You Can Trust A God With Scars, available from NavPress on September 9.
As the person bearing the letter we now call the book of Romans, it would have been Phoebe who first read, explained, taught, and answered
While preparing for our family travel and rest in June and July, I’ll assemble my “summer stack”– the books I’ll read my way through over