Holiness at the Welcome Table

When Peter wrote "be holy in all you do," the church he addressed was a scattered community of immigrants and strangers — people pushed to the margins of the Roman Empire. Holiness, for them, was never about purity codes that separated clean from unclean. It was about becoming a people set apart by radical belonging. A small congregation in Portland discovered this when they converted their fellowship hall into a weekly free laundromat for unhoused neighbors.…