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John Calvin, 16th-century reformer, on Hebrews 13:2's stranger-entertaining angels: skeptics who call this rare miss the point entirely — per Matthew 25, we receive not angels but Christ himself in the poor. Hospitality, he says, is especially acceptable to God. Recently I was told that *praying* for refugees is "an extremely complex issue." Christ, apparently, has become a foreign policy dilemma.

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Andrew Martin Fairbairn notes that Calvin’s Geneva became Protestant Europe’s spiritual Airbnb: refugees arrived from everywhere, discovered a surprisingly orderly church, and then went home—occasionally risking execution—to recreate it. One wonders whether today’s Calvinist strongholds still feel like refuges, or merely meetings.

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