hospitality to strangers. Thus, in this book I will generally reserve the language of hospitality for the process of making space for strangers and the language of friendship or fictive kinship to describe the result of hospitality to strangers. In this book I demonstrate that hospitality to strangers is an inextricable component of the Christian faith. To some extent, the claim that hospitality to strangers is at the heart of Christianity needs little justification. After all, from the very first