Rhetoric Race and Religion
Peter Gathje serves as professor of Christian Ethics and Associate Dean at Memphis Theological Seminary. His teaching and research interests include Christian discipleship in relation to poverty, racism, and homelessness, nonviolent social change, and state violence, particularly the death penalty and war. He is a founder and co-director of Manna House, a place of hospitality for homeless persons located in Memphis. Dr. Gathje has written two books, Christ Comes in the Stranger’s Guise (1991), Sharing the Bread of Life: Hospitality and Resistance at the Open Door Community (2006) and edited two other works, Doing Right and Being Good: Catholic and Protestant Readings in Christian Ethics (2005), and A Work of Hospitality: The Open Door Reader (2002). He is active with a number of peace and justice organizations including the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing, and the Workers Interfaith Network. He also blogs regularly at Radical Hospitality.
1. Jesus was a Panhandler
2. No More Bologna and No More Baloney
4. Little by Little Taking the Edge Off This Cold World
5. Being Open to Accepting Limits: A Reflection
6. The Struggle and the Full Armor of God
7. A Man with a Brown Hat
8. Walking with the Homeless Jesus
9. Love and Limits
10. Grief and the Promise of Life
11. Of Football, Maps, Mourning, Mom, and Foot Washing
12. “You Need to Check this Place Out”
13. Taking Refuge in the Shadow of God’s Wings
14. Jacob’s Gift
15. Bear One Other’s Burdens
16. A Mostly Ordinary Morning
17. Pentecost, Toothaches and Much More
18. From Ferguson, Missouri to Manna House
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