Hopeful Strangers and Sojourners

In previous editorials we have looked at who strangers and sojourners are; we have seen that as they live in the world they are guided by God’s providence; and we have shown that in the biblical figure of strangers and sojourners there are two ways and two gates. Strangers and sojourners are hopeful or hoping strangers and sojourners. More than anything else they are those who hope. Hope is their salient characteristic. If you ask, as we are doing, what a stranger and sojourner looks like, the...