That's What She Said

“No More a Stranger or a Guest, But Like a Child at Home.” God’s cosmic plan of salvation can be described as “reconciliation” – the putting back together that which has been separated – people from people, people from God, people from the earth – all is re-tethered, interdependent, in the household of God.
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I Was a Stranger, and You Welcomed Me. The church has long understood itself as an organization that provides basic necessities like food and clothing to those “less fortunate.” Does the church likewise have an obligation to provide accompaniment and community to those who are lonely? What if that is the gospel for our disconnected, disconsolate age?
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Welcoming Jesus. Jesus depended on the hospitality of others throughout his ministry – and really, throughout his life, from the Bethlehem barn to the borrowed tomb. The Bethany sisters were two of his closest friends, and they learned how to welcome him well. Can we extrapolate better and worse ways to welcome Jesus into our lives, perhaps by busying ourselves less, competing for his affection less, and quieting ourselves to listen more?
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I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table. We use many metaphors for God, but what about God as Dinner Party Host Extraordinaire? Jesus returns to this metaphor in his parables: God prepares a table, a banquet, a party; guests are either ready or not to join the celebration.
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Aliens Among Us. The language of “aliens” recurs many, many times through the Torah – compiled and written during the time of Israel’s exile to Babylon, many generations after the escape from Egypt. While the imperially conquered Judaism of Jesus’s day tended to keep Jewish identity front and center (so that Jesus himself never once ate with a Gentile!), there is a strong minority report in the text about God’s care and concern for non-Israelite persons. What does this mean for our own reception of non-citizen immigrants? How does the contemporary church “love the alien as ourselves”?
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