Making Hospitality a Spiritual Practice with Laura Baghdassarian Murray

As we move through the busy Advent season leading to Christmas, it’s a good time to reflect on hospitality. These days our culture treats it like a skill to be mastered (and often, as an obligation). Does the Christian tradition offer anything deeper? Is there a way for us to be hospitable, not merely as a skill or an obligation, but as something that flows out of who God has created us to be?

Laura Baghdassarian Murray’s new book, Becoming a Person of Welcome, highlights the central role of spiritual formation in becoming hospitable people. Laura will guide us in cultivating a posture of welcome that reflects God’s presence and generosity, with theological insight and practical steps we can apply – even in a busy season.

Special thanks to co-host IVP for support of this event!

Laura Baghdassarian Murray is the director of spiritual engagement and innovation at Fuller Seminary’s Center for Spiritual Formation. She is the author of Pray as You Are, serves on the Ministry Collaborative Advisory Board, and previously served at Highland Park Presbyterian Church as the pastor of spiritual formation. Laura is also the founder of the Digital Silent Retreat Ministry, which is rooted in the practice of hospitality to provide brave and courageous spaces for people to connect with God and others (www.digitalsilentretreats.com). She lives in the Dallas area with her husband and two children.