Welcoming the Other

An Ethnographic Study of Hospitality

J Greg Sinclair

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Pickwick Publications
17 October 2025

Christianity; Christian Churches & denominations; Christian institutions & organisations; Christian social thought & activity; Christian mission & evangelism

Series: McMaster Studies in Practical Theology

As the church in Canada faces a post-Christendom future, the welcome and inclusion of diaspora communities offers opportunities for revitalization. In 2022, J. Greg Sinclair went on a yearlong ethnographic journey to understand the experience of hospitality at Willowdale Christian Reformed Church, a sixty-three-year-old congregation of Dutch ethnic heritage in Toronto, Canada. Using a pastoral cycle of experience-exploration-reflection and action and an ethnographic research method, Sinclair sought to understand and reflect on Willowdale's experience of welcoming many newcomers from Iran. Using Zoom interviews and in-person observation, this qualitative study investigates the changing nature of one congregation in Canada and the challenges and opportunities of welcoming increasing cultural and linguistic diversity. Willowdale's experience points to the potential of hospitality as a culture and habitus to move a congregation from an us-versus-them dynamic to mutuality. This book is for church members seeking new modes of hospitality and presents a hopeful vision of a multicultural, revitalized, and faithful church in Canada.

By: J Greg Sinclair
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9798385256693
Series: McMaster Studies in Practical Theology
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 17 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

J. Greg Sinclair is a pastor-missionary who has served two churches in Canada as well as Resonate Global Mission, the Christian Reformed Church mission agency. Sinclair has worked encouraging missional activity among diaspora communities and was a mission consultant to Willowdale Christian Reformed Church at the time of this research project. Previously, Sinclair, along with his wife Nelly and four children, lived among the Fulani people of West Africa as church developers. Sinclair is presently the pastor of Willowdale Christian Reformed Church.

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J Greg Sinclair

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