Letty M. Russell is the author of this book, but it is edited by J. Shannon Clarkson and Kate M. Ott, since it was published after Russell’s death. The full title of the book is Just Hospitality—God’s Welcome in a World of Difference. There are times when it is not easy reading, as if it were written for the seminary student. And that is interesting because Letty herself wants there to be no hierarchy between pastors and lay. The book expands the idea of hospitality, far beyond the after-the-worship-service-coffee-and-cookies, and in fact far beyond being tolerant of the other. It promotes a hospitality that in reality welcomes the stranger and makes no person into the “other.”
Just Hospitality
