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'Strangers no longer': who is the other among us?

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 20-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: 'Strangers no longer': who is the other among us?(NATION)

Article Excerpt
The following article by Erik Meder appeared in the April/May 2005 issue of National Jesuit News. After the article appeared, Meder was asked to resign from his position as outreach coordinator for the Office of Social and International Ministries at the U.S. Jesuit Conference. (See story on Page 7.)

The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19:34)

This is a common scriptural motif: God's command that Israel love the Other as herself is coupled by the bid that Israel understand herself. Understanding herself as liberated from the exile of otherness, Israel must not recreate for Others a new Egypt, that land of slavery.

There is a circular relationship between self-understanding and conduct. We behave toward one another according to our self-understanding, which is always aspirational, always projecting from what we are to what we might become.

Just as our self-understanding molds...

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