Welcoming the stranger

Who is the stranger to us?
Some very public statements in the last year or so tell us how some other people would answer this question.

A local community organization openly states as their objective making “illegal migrants” (the preferred code phrase for Latino low-wage workers who are assumed not to have documentation) feel so [...]

On unwed mothers and other ‘others’

There was a time – and it’s not so long ago – that being an ‘unwed mother’ was a real stigma for any teen-aged girl. There was shame… embarrassment… even scandal… and if her family had any kind of social prominence things were usually hush-hushed and covered up in a variety [...]