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From Stranger to Guest
In many languages, the words “stranger”, “guest” and “enemy” are the same word, for example the Latin “hostis”, which means both “guest” and “enemy”. The Hebrew word we most often translate as “stranger” is ”ger”, which can also be translated as “refugee”, “immigrant”, “guest”, “newcomer”, “sojourner”, or “foreigner”, depends on the reason why you are on the move. If you …
Lest We Be Scattered
After Adam and Eve are displaced from the garden and Cain from the field, humanity begins to migrate and spread across the earth. But when they reach the land of Shinar, things come to a halt: “1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in …
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
If we in the last chapter could see that we humans are created in the image of God, I want to show in this chapter that we are also created to be each other’s fellow human beings. Since human beings were originally created by God, all human beings have a common origin and are fellow human beings with each other, …
Created as a Migrant
In the beginning of the Bible, we read about how God created the world, how he brought order to the chaos and lit a light in the darkness. On the sixth day of Creation Week, God created Adam and Eve, the first human beings: “27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created …
Friend of Strangers: Preface
I remember when my wife Annica and I went down to the Wailing Wall on a warm summer evening in Jerusalem in 2009 to look for the first three stars in the night sky, marking the start of the Jewish Sabbath. Once there, unexpectedly, we were invited to the home of a Rabbi for a Shabbat meal. We walked through …