Tuesday, September 21, 2010
loving eric: a contemporary theology of hospitality
An unexpected bonus of visiting the Tate Modern was re-finding the work of Shaun Tan. Si Smith, of 40 fame, first put me onto Shaun, by sending me The Red Tree. It was beautiful, hand illustrated with a lovely, unfolding short story.
While at Tate, I noticed another Shaun Tate, Eric. Delightful size. Once again beautifully illustrated. And the story, again lovely and unfolding. I am not going to summarise it in any way, because it would ruin it. Simply to say that it offers a fascinating theology of hospitality; what it means to give as a tourist and receive as a host.
It worked for me at so many levels – tourist in England, alien in Australia, missiologist talking often about hospitality your place and mine!
Posted by steve at 08:13 PM
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Check out “tales from Outer Suburbia’ with a number of short stories of which ‘Eric’ is definitely the strongest Steve!!
Comment by Rob Hanks — September 21, 2010 @ 8:27 pm
Tales from Outer Suburbia is a gem, but clearly publishers thought “Eric” was particulary strong, so published it separately…
I’m envious mate. Sounds like you’re having a great time.
Comment by Paul Fromont — September 22, 2010 @ 9:18 am
thanks paul. it’s been a much richer time than i envisaged, on so many levels.
steve at singapore airport
Comment by steve — September 22, 2010 @ 7:39 pm