04.15.07

Welcoming the Stranger: Giving Recognition and Showing Hospitality

Posted in Public Theology, Social and Political Philosophy at 11:46 pm by Kam Weng

Hospitality most fittingly captures the ways and welfare of the pilgrim peoples. In the act of sharing we achieve freedom from the strangling and suffocating attachment to worldly goods. When we share and receive from one another, we are reminded that we are merely stewards of God’s gifts to be used for the common good. In offering hospitality to strangers we affirm we are merely fellow pilgrims en route to the heavenly city of God.

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