The Other Face of God: When the Stranger Calls Us Home

Mary Jo Leddy lives with refugees at Romero House, a temporary shelter in Toronto where extraordinary things happen. In this meditative reflection she describes how the newcomer disrupts our lives and summons us to a new sense of ourselves, a fresh sense of Christ and a compelling vision of the church. The stranger is the one who calls us to live beyond the false sense of identity that is generated within an imperial culture.

These theopoetic reflections are located in the real stories of people such as Teresita, a Guatemalan woman who supports her son by scraping gum from underneath theater seats. A Somali woman with a white artificial leg reveals the truth about a culture that assumes it is the center of the world.

Situated within a tiny neighborhood in the most multicultural city in the world, a place where local concerns and global realities meet on a daily basis, The Other Face of God offers an ancient and new starting point for contemporary spirituality.