In this scholarly tome, Amos Yong, a professor of theology and a clergyman with Pentecostal Assemblies of God Church, considers the profound importance of the spiritual practice of hospitality in a multireligious world. He makes a good case for the view that the gift of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost brings into existence respect not only for many tongues but many practices: "Just as the many tongues are not homogenized but bear witness to the glory of God in and through their particularities, so also the many practices accomplished the redemptive and sanctifying work of the Spirit as signs of the coming kingdom." Yong spells out what Christian mission can mean in this context with discussions of interreligious practices in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and the United States.

In a time when interreligious violence, war, and terrorism are widespread, it behooves Christian communities around the world to engage in ecumenical dialogue for mutual enrichment and transformation. It is time to move beyond theologies of exclusivism and inclusivism to the kind of pluralistic theologies modeled by John Hicks, Raimon Panikkar, and Aloysius Pieris.

Yong moves on to an in-depth treatment of the theme of hospitality in the narrative of Luke-Acts and the wider arena of the relationship between the people of God and the alien and the stranger. He contends that because this spiritual practice proceeds from the magnanimous hospitality of God, "it is founded on the incarnational and pentecostal logic of abundance rather than that of the human economies of exchange and scarcity." Yong ends the book with an inspiring vision of Christian hospitality that animates interreligious dialogue, befriending strangers and neighbors, and practicing peace and justice in a postmodern and pluralistic world.