Windows on the World: Greg Thompson

Windows on the World (January 31st 3 p.m.): “Tables in a Time of War - On the Pain and Possibility of Hospitality”. This conversation will consider how, in time such as ours, with its manifold estrangements and endless recriminations, we might embrace the work of hospitality not only as an important expression of Christian faith, but also as a deeply needed contribution to social healing.

Gregory Thompson is a writer, artist, cook, and creative leader who works at the intersection of moral imagination and social change. He is Founder and Principal of Convivium, a Creative Strategy Studio, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Voices Underground, a public memory firm developing the National Memorial to the Underground Railroad, and Co-Founder of The Welcome Table, a creative project devoted to encouraging the work of hospitality in broken communities. He is author of “The Welcome Table,” a quarterly column on Hospitality and Culture at Comment Magazine, of Blood From the Ground: Racial Healing and Public Memory (forthcoming), and co-author of the award-winning Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair. He holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Virginia, and can most likely be found in the kitchen.

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