S24E1008 - Who is the Other, the Alien, the Foreigner?

Job 19:15 (NIV)

“My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.”

Psalm 69:8 (NIV)

“I am a foreigner to my own family, a stranger to my own mother’s children.”

Not too long ago I was reading a book by a Benedictine nun. As I read, she kept talking about “the other”. I pictured the other as someone terrible. It took a while, but finally I figured out that she was talking about me. The other was anyone who was not part of her Benedictin...