Designed for both ordained and lay ministers at the diocesan and parish levels, this document challenges us to prepare to receive newcomers with a genuine spirit of welcome.
Welcoming the stranger among us: unity in diversity
World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration.
Called to Welcome the Stranger Among Us: Unity in Diversity
... welcoming the stranger in our midst and enjoying the communion that is our destiny as Children of God . -Welcoming the Stranger Among Us : Unity in Diversity , A Statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops Com Wommunion does not abolish ...
Increasingly an effort has been made to include blacks , hispanics , women , and youth on worship commissions . ... 31 White recognizes the necessity of including those strangers whom I have called the obvious , or outside , strangers .
Loving the Stranger addresses these fears in an understanding way, answers these concerns in a way that will resonate regardless of people's political convictions, and lays out simple ways to begin welcoming immigrants in the midst of our ...
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Justice: Rights and Wrongs (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), Kindle location 55. 20. Take, for example, Jesus' mandate in Luke 4:18–19: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me ...
I remember sitting in a Gurung village in the mountains of Nepal talking to a group of young men and answering their questions about the Christian faith. We were sitting in a smokefilled room, the only light being the reflection from ...
Practicing Pilgrimage: On Being and Becoming God's Pilgrim People explores both the theological, cultural, and spiritual roots of Christian pilgrimage, and is a "how-to" book on doing pilgrimage in our suburban backyards, city streets, ...
... Welcoming the Stranger Among Us : Unity in Diversity A Statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops English : No. 5-375 , 80 pp . , Spanish : No. 5-848 , 80 pp . Welcoming the Stranger Kit , No. 5-407 Called to Welcome the Stranger Among Us ...