Making Room

It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve just started reading a book that a number of people I know and respect (including Katie!) have raved about. In Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition (Eerdmans), Christine Pohl seeks to recover the word “hospitality” and breathe new life into it.

Hospitality, in the Christian tradition, isn’t a synonym for “entertaining” or getting a job in the hotel industry. Hospitality means being generous and inviting toward friends and family, yes, but also to strangers – and maybe even enemies. Understood this way, hospitality is radically countercultural. It has everything to do with hearts, minds, and bodies – and nothing whatsoever to do with HGTV kitchens and Pottery Barn dining rooms.

As our post-pandemic lives keep picking up speed, right now seems like the perfect time to reflect on what it means to make room for what matters most.