“Just hospitality will not make us safe,” Russell says, “but it will lead us to risk joining in the work of mending creation without requiring those who are different to become like us.”[1] I am thankful for the witness of Camp Compasión in providing us with a living image of just hospitality. May each of us go and do likewise.
The decision by Donald Trump and his administration to host their first Republican campaign rally since Covid-19 in the heartland of Tulsa was not only insensitive to hear, but a disgrace to the sacred and historical memory of “Black Wall Street,” the “1921 Tulsa Massacre,” and the Juneteenth holiday.
