The Person of Welcome
Can We Bring Good to our World through Hospitality?
Listen to a recording of this Speaker Series event on the Carmen House Podcast.
We live in a tense cultural moment. Our disagreements and differing ways of viewing the world can feel like life or death. When we sense that the stakes are raised, it is easy to be defensive and suspicious of others who are different from us. Sometimes, those who identify as Christians seem prone to stoking the flames of discord.
But this kind of tension and clash of beliefs is not new to our context. In the midst of similar times of societal anxiety, Jesus Christ lived and modeled a different way, without compromising on his convictions.
How do we become the kind of people that make room for others that are different than us? How do we drop our defenses without demanding others conform to our point of view? How do we overcome the pull toward social isolation or divisiveness?
Dr. Laura Baghdassarian Murray, author of Becoming a Person of Welcome, hosted this conversation.
Laura Baghdassarian Murray (DMin, Fuller Seminary) is the director of spiritual engagement and innovation at Fuller Seminary's Center for Spiritual Formation. She is the author of Pray as You Are, serves on the Ministry Collaborative Advisory Board, and previously served at Highland Park Presbyterian Church as the pastor of spiritual formation.
Laura is also the founder of the Digital Silent Retreat Ministry, which is rooted in the practice of hospitality to provide brave and courageous spaces for people to connect with God and others. She lives in the Dallas area with her husband and two children.
