Martin Luther once said, “Where the Church is, there is hospitality.” To be the people of God is to extend God’s acceptance and welcome not only to the people we know and like, but to the stranger and the exile. We have acceptance; we have eternal welcome; we, who were once foreigners and enemies, have been made part of the family.

And now the God of Christmas and Incarnation sends us out to incarnate Christmas, to be a word of divine acceptance and welcome to a strange and foreign world…. read more