creating a Welcome combines an interesting own tale with an exam of the that means and probabilities of hospitality, either as a household perform a lot short of revival, and as a primary Christian orientation, with emotional, highbrow and religious implications.

Maria Poggi Johnson attracts on her wisdom of the Christian culture, and on twenty years of non-public event of attempting to welcome good, to think about what occurs after we open our houses to others, what's fascinated with supplying a real welcome, and the way the abilities we strengthen in doing so can form our relations with our spouses, with the society round us, with our personal ideals and commitments, and with God. Illustrated through tales drawn from Scripture, literature, movie, and from the author's personal adventure, creating a Welcome demanding situations readers to find the life-changing perform of real hospitality, not just of their houses, yet in all points in their lives.

"Maria Poggi Johnson is familiar with that sturdy tales are what consultant reliable lives--and that we research goodness as we position ourselves inside of them. She additionally understands that stable theology starts at domestic, within the unusual and excellent details of human neighborhood. during this publication she reaches out via inviting us in to her personal really loopy lifestyles and residential. The dialog that ensues is enlivening and theologically insightful, moved alongside by way of Maria's striking stylistic ability and humoristic ¼are."
--CHARLES PINCHES
University of Scranton

"This attractive publication is a pride. With attractiveness and exuberance, and in a self-effacing loosely autobiographical type, Maria Poggi Johnson explores the center Christian perform of hospitality--the voyage of the self out into interplay with a number signi¹cant others: viewers, strangers, one's marriage associate, and God. there's additionally a profound re¼ection on receiving texts and ideas hospitably. A ebook to aid the reader re-imagine lifestyle in additional welcoming terms."
--RICHARD S. BRIGGS
University of Durham, England

"Making a Welcome demanding situations Christians to re-examine the significance of hospitality as a tradition and a witness. through webhosting the reader on a journey of her existence she welcomes us to her domestic, her marriage, her highbrow lifestyles, and her religion . . . the true vulnerability and honesty of her writing exposes the pretenses of the reader, whereas her generosity of spirit invitations one to dive uninhibitedly into each one new bankruptcy. To all of this, she brings willing theological perception and fresh wit."
--J. MICHAEL UTZINGER
Hampden-Sydney College

Maria Poggi Johnson is Professor of Theology on the college of Scranton. She is the writer of Strangers and associates: What i've got discovered approximately Christianity by means of dwelling between Orthodox Jews.