Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in Our Christian Response to Immigration Gonzlez Karen
Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in Our Christian Response to Immigration Gonzlez Karen Many American Christians have good intentions, working hard to welcome immigrants with hospitality and…
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Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in Our Christian Response to Immigration Gonzlez Karen
Many American Christians have good intentions, working hard to welcome immigrants with hospitality and solidarity. That's exactly the question Karen Gonzlez explores in Beyond Welcome.A Guatemalan immigrant, Gonzlez draws from the Bible and her own experiences to examine why the traditional approach to immigration ministries and activism is at best incomplete and at worst harmful. But how can we do that in a way that empowers our immigrant neighbors rather than pushing them to the fringes of white-dominant culture and keeping them as outsiders?
By advocating for putting immigrants in the center of the conversation, Gonzlez helps readers grow in discipleship and recognize themselves in their immigrant neighbors.Accessible to any Christian who is called to serve immigrants, this book equips readers to take action to dismantle white supremacy and xenophobia in