CHRISTINE ON "BEING A STRANGER":
A stranger is someone who is disconnected from their regular life-giving relationships and connections. That can be a fairly neutral thing if you have enough resources to take care of yourself. However—especially in this society—if you lack such resources as money, education, or competence in multiple areas, you are very vulnerable. You are separated from family, work, church, education. That’s what characterizes homeless people and refugees, and sometimes international workers.
Walter Brueggemann says “Strangers are people without a place.” That’s the most succinct definition. People with resources often have a place—they may just not be in it at the time. The people who are most vulnerable are those who genuinely are without a place, and without the resources to do anything about it.
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A good thing for the Church to be: the place for people.
agreed, the church should be the place for people without 'a place'
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