East Coast Hospitality: Myth or Reality?
Ebook
Overview
Canada’s East Coast has a reputation for hospitality. Atlantic Canadians are thought to be warm and friendly, stopping to take the time to greet neighbours on the street and to give directions to strangers. As a predominantly rural region, Canada’s East Coast can exude small-town charm. Even its cities can have a homey feel mostly absent from the bustling streets of Toronto or Vancouver.
But is this hospitality more than skin deep, and does it apply to the thousands of newcomers who have moved to Atlantic Canada in recent years from around the world? The chapters of this book explore these and related questions. They examine whether the famed East Coast hospitality still exists--or ever really existed at all.
Atlantic Canadians are shaped by rugged coastlines, huge waves, and big hearts. East Coast Hospitality: Myth or Reality? speaks directly to who we like to think we are and who we could become. Through honest questioning, heartfelt stories, and rich theological insight, the contributors illuminate how our churches, our homes, and our very way of being can reflect Christ’s radical hospitality. This book speaks to the challenges we face and the call of the gospel to be a people overflowing with hope to everyone—the neighbor, the stranger, the friend. I recommend it to all who long to see our churches and homes become places of refuge, healing, and hope.
——Renée MacVicar, Executive Minister, Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada
In an age marked by deepening isolation and polarizing division, this timely book offers a Gospel-centered way forward through the radical practice of loving hospitality. Spiritually rich and profoundly practical, it calls readers to embody a Christlike welcome that can transform neighborhoods, renew churches, and bear powerful witness to the hope of Jesus. Read it for a deeper reflection. Live it to change the world around you.
——Elijah M. Brown, General Secretary and CEO, Baptist World Alliance
- Title: East Coast Hospitality: Myth or Reality?
- Author: Melody Maxwell
- Series: East Coast Theology
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9798385224760, 9798385224753, 9798385224746
- Resource ID: LLS:9798385224760
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-23T00:32:11Z