This important volume reawakens us to one of the central aspects our existence—being part of the public. Palmer’s lucid explanations reveal how connections and interactions with a community of strangers converge to create an educating, nourishing, challenging, and humanizing dynamic that unites us with each other and the divine. Palmer shows how personal, inner seeking supports and frees us to experience our participation in the public and to engage public life with integrity, creating an unfolding sense of identification and togetherness with those around us. He makes clear that true hospitality and openness to the unknown transform our vision so that we comprehend that it is no stranger we make welcome but the living spirit of Christ that sustains us and our common good.