The Welcome Table with Gregory Thompson

WITH

Gregory Thompson

The Welcome Table with Gregory Thompson is a quarterly column devoted to exploring the practice of hospitality as it has surprised some of our society’s most profound moral fractures, opening the way for hard yet hearty journeys whose work continues to this day.

Recent Installments

Essay
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A Tale of Two Kitchens

The Menu, The Bear, and a choice.
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Home Is Where the Welcome Is

On hospitality and trauma.
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Hinges and a Lock

Hospitality in a world of predators.
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The Empty Chair

On Hospitality and Loss
Column
- Gregory Thompson
Dreamers of Dreams

The priority of moral imagination in cultural change.
Column
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To Inhabit the Earth

The ecological horizon of being human.
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Brisket with the Danes

Notes on the colonial and the convivial.

About

About the Author

Gregory Thompson

Gregory Thompson is a scholar and artist focusing largely on matters of race, religion, memory, and hospitality. Gregory is founder and principal of Convivium Studio, and creative director of both the National Memorial to the Underground Railroad and Star and Lantern, a cocktail bar and restaurant in partnership with chef Chris Scott.

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