Dining Tables as Battering Rams

Published March 17, 2021

Philos Project

By Luma Simms

EPPC Fellow Luma Simms has written a primer on the theme of hospitality for the Philos Project’s “John 15 Challenge.” Click here to view or download a PDF version of this primer.

Luma Simms, a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, studies the life and thought of immigrants. Before joining EPPC, Mrs. Simms was an Associate Fellow at The Philos Project where her research and writing focused on a Christian presence in the Middle East, anti-Semitism, and immigrant life and thought.Dining-Tables-as-Battering-Rams-by-Luma-Simms

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