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Author Stephen Winzenburg is featured in a 1997 Christianity Today article that discusses his research into the fundraising practices of television evangelists.A recent issue of Christianity Today looks at how Florida churches are extending hospitality to Haitian immigrants. Hospitality has also been covered by several of Christianity Today's sister publications. Your Church magazine has an article on building hospitality into historic churches, and Marriage Partnership looks at how husbands and wives can often have different approaches to hospitality. Virtue, now sadly defunct, offers an article on the virtue of hospitality. Leadership has two articles on hospitality. The first discusses ways churches can practice hospitality toward those new to a church. The second looks at how one pastor and his wife opened up their home to parishioners and the lessons they've learned from that experience. Leadership also discusses how churches can function in an age of rampant individualism.iBelieve.com has an article from Vonette Bright of Campus Crusade that discusses how she and her husband, Bill Bright, have used their home to "entertain and touch lives" over the years."Spirtuality of Work in the Hospitality Industry" compares the practice of hospitality in classical, biblical, and modern worlds. David Gowler of Chowan College has posted an essay on Jesus' hospitality that shows how Jesus' understanding of hospitality differed from that of the scribes and Pharisees.Christine Pohl, a professor of social ethics at Asbury Theological Seminary published Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition last year. It discusses Christian approaches toward hospitality through the centuries. There is also a brief historical overview at the Diocese of Antwerp (Belgium) Web site.If you want to experience a little Christian hospitality of your own, you can find an extensive list of Christian bed and breakfasts around the world at the International Christian Bed and Breakfast Network. Books & Culture featured an article on the appeal of bed and breakfasts in an issue earlier this year.

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May 22 2000, Vol. 44, No. 6