Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality Christopher Hart Susan Compo is a lecturer

Susan Compo is a lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California

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Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality Christopher Hart Susan Compo is a lecturerDescription: "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the "unclean" in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities are well aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness and mercy are not so easily resolved. At every turn, it seems that the psychological pull of purity and holiness tempts the church into