Author : Ched Myers and Matthew Colwell
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608331156
Author : Ched Myers
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2012-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570759567
The principle of hospitality and the commandment to welcome the stranger are among the most consistent themes of the Bible. How does that apply to the question of undocumented immigrants in our own country? In recent years the question of immigration has become a target of heated political controversy, one that reaches into nearly every community in the country. How does our biblical faith address this issue? And how should people of faith respond? In alternating chapters the authors of this book address these questions, examining the biblical dimensions of hospitality, sanctuary, and immigration, while also relating the actual stories of immigrants why they come, what they seek, what they endure as well as the stories of those who help them.
Author : Julia Lambert Fogg
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493420151
Immigration is an issue of major concern within the Christian community. As Christians, how should we respond to the current crisis? Interweaving biblical narratives of border crossing and recent stories of immigrants at the US-Mexico border, this accessibly written book invites Christians to reconsider the plight of their neighbors and respond with compassion to the present immigration crisis. Julia Lambert Fogg, a pastor and New Testament scholar who is actively serving immigrant families in Southern California, interprets well-known biblical stories in a fresh way and puts a human face on the immigration debate. Fogg argues that Christians must step out of their comfort zones and learn to cross social, ethnic, and religious borders--just as Jesus did--to become the body of Christ in the world. She encourages readers to welcome Christ by embracing DREAMers, the undocumented, asylum seekers, and immigrants, and she inspires Christians to advocate for immigrant justice in their communities.
Author : Matthew Soerens
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830885552
World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths about immigration, show the limits of the current immigration system, and offer concrete ways for you to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.
Author : Karen González
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1513804146
Meet people who have fled their homelands. Hagar. Joseph. Ruth. Jesus. Here is a riveting story of seeking safety in another land. Here is a gripping journey of loss, alienation, and belonging. In The God Who Sees, immigration advocate Karen Gonzalez recounts her family’s migration from the instability of Guatemala to making a new life in Los Angeles and the suburbs of south Florida. In the midst of language barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and the tremendous pressure to assimilate, Gonzalez encounters Christ through a campus ministry program and begins to follow him. Here, too, is the sweeping epic of immigrants and refugees in Scripture. Abraham, Hagar, Joseph, Ruth: these intrepid heroes of the faith cross borders and seek refuge. As witnesses to God’s liberating power, they name the God they see at work, and they become grafted onto God’s family tree. Find resources for welcoming immigrants in your community and speaking out about an outdated immigration system. Find the power of Jesus, a refugee Savior who calls us to become citizens in a country not of this world.
Author : M. Daniel Carroll R.
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2008-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080103566X
Hispanic Old Testament scholar Daniel Carroll brings biblical theology to bear creatively on the current immigration conversation with an eye to correcting assumptions on both sides of the issue.
Author : Tisha M. Rajendra
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 146744880X
In all the noisy rhetoric currently surrounding immigration, one important question is rarely asked: What ethical responsibilities do immigrants and citizens have to each other? In this book Tisha Rajendra reframes the confused and often heated debate over immigration around the world, proposes a new definition of justice based on responsibility to relationships, and develops a Christian ethic to address this vexing social problem.
Author : Hoover, Brett C.
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1587688697
Immigration and Faith is a comprehensive textbook for theology and religious studies courses that addresses migration to and within the United States and beyond.
Author : Efraín Agosto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2018-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3319966952
This book examines the conjunction between migration and biblical texts with a focus on Latinx histories and experiences. Essays reflect upon Latinxs, the Bible, and migration in different ways: some consider how the Bible is used in the midst of, or in response to, Latinx experiences and histories of migration; some use Latinx histories and experiences of migration to examine Biblical texts in both First and Second Testaments; some consider the “Bible” as a phenomenological set of texts that respond to and/or compel migration. Cultural, literary, and postcolonial theories inform the analysis, as does the exploration of how migrant groups themselves scripturalize their biblical and cultural texts.
Author : Robert W. Heimburger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 110717662X
A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.
