Spiritual writer Henri Nouwen said this decades ago (and it’s more true now than ever): “Our society seems to be increasingly full of fearful, defensive, aggressive people anxiously clinging to their property and inclined to look at their surrounding world with suspicion, always expecting an enemy to suddenly appear, intrude and do harm. But still—that is our vocation: to convert…the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.”23 To create a free and fearless space—this is our vocation. Hospitality must
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