We hope you'll join us for this contemplative Communion service at 8:30am in the Great Hall. It is not necessary to RSVP for this service.

Radical Hospitality: Welcoming the Strange

Mystery surrounds all our relationships, especially with strangers. A stranger is someone we don’t know and often is not like us. In the first part of Genesis 18, Abraham offers radical hospitality to God by caring for three visiting strangers who bring an important message to Sarah. Hebrews reminds us to show hospitality to strangers because we might be entertaining angels unaware. With all of the assumptions, suspicions, and fears we have about the “other,” how do we use these Biblical models to welcome the stranger when life gets messy?