{"id":10011,"date":"2018-07-02T17:58:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T23:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/?p=10011"},"modified":"2018-07-02T17:59:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T23:59:25","slug":"we-are-welcome-we-are-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2018\/07\/02\/we-are-welcome-we-are-love\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Welcome, We Are Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a sort-of follow up to last week’s Jesus-Justice-Joy post from Shannon<\/a>, Orin writes this week to share a new lyric video of a song he recently wrote which has also been published.<\/p>\n

The song has two Hebrew words as its title and part of the refrain: Hachnasat Orchim. This most simply translates to “hospitality,” but in the world of the Jewish faith, it’s more specifically about the welcoming of the stranger. \u00a0This song is included in a book of music for the Reform Judaism movement (you may recall a few times a month Orin plays for services at Temple Shaare Emeth) titled, in English, “Jewish Songs of Protest and Hope.”<\/a> \u00a0While writen for Judaism, I think it’s also not hard to hear in the lyrics Jesus’s similar teachings of welcome and love \u2013 He was, of course, himself a Rabbi and teacher during his earthly ministries.<\/p>\n

I hope the music inspires singers and listeners to prayer, and then to action: bringing hope into the world, and making that hope real by action and change.<\/p>\n