{"id":2095,"date":"2012-05-28T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/05\/our-contributor-peter-gathje.html"},"modified":"2012-05-28T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T23:21:00","slug":"our-contributor-peter-gathje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/05\/our-contributor-peter-gathje.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Contributor: Peter Gathje"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/a>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\u2019s 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.\u00a0<\/a><\/span>

<\/span>1.\u00a0Jesus was a Panhandler<\/a><\/span>
2.\u00a0No More Bologna and No More Baloney<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Christmas Hope is Hard<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
4. Little by Little Taking the Edge Off This Cold World<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
5. Being Open to Accepting Limits: A Reflection<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
6. The Struggle and the Full Armor of God<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
7. A Man with a Brown Hat<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
8. Walking with the Homeless Jesus<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
9. Love and Limits<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
10. Grief and the Promise of Life<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
11. Of Football, Maps, Mourning, Mom, and Foot Washing<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
12. \u201cYou Need to Check this Place Out\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
13. Taking Refuge in the Shadow of God\u2019s Wings<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
14. Jacob\u2019s Gift<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

15. Bear One Other\u2019s Burdens<\/a><\/span>
16.\u00a0A Mostly Ordinary Morning<\/a><\/span>
17.\u00a0Pentecost, Toothaches and Much More<\/a><\/span>
18.\u00a0From Ferguson, Missouri to Manna House<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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