Radically Ordinary Hospitality: A Conversation with Rosaria Butterfield

Rosaria used to be a “committed unbeliever,” a tenured professor at Syracuse University, a leading thinker in queer studies, and a practicing lesbian. Then God used an invitation to dinner in a modest home, from a humble couple who lived out the Gospel daily, simply, and authentically, to draw Rosaria to himself.

Rosaria shares her conversion story in her book, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor’s Journey into Christian Faith

Learn more about Dr. Rosaria Butterfield

 

KEY QUESTIONS:

How can ordinary hospitality bring someone to faith?How is true Christian hospitality different from entertaining? What makes a good “hospitality home”?What are the spiritual benefits of sharing life, and being vulnerable with one another?

 

KEY SCRIPTURE:

“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 10:24–25

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