Tag: structural change
Seeking Salvation–Without Soul Vulturing
As much as refugees need fame; as much as they need freedom from political, economic, and social oppression; as much as they need food, water, and shelter; we know—as Christians and as Christian humanitarians—that at...
Making Refugees Famous: Raising Awareness
As the Church adopts a new, strong, righteous presence in this age of the uprooted, increasingly stepping into positions and platforms that equip it to hear, understand, serve, and be served by refugees, it needs...
10 Presences the Church Can Practice for Refugees
Presence 1: Live a Public, Political Faith The Church can live out a public religion, as it was always meant to. Christianity was never intended to be a privatized faith, as though it has no...
Fallen Powers and Church Presence
The root problems of refugeeism are giant and many. Policy, economics, discrimination. I will never forget when a Syrian project leader from Aleppo told me we are all responsible for displacement around the world because...
Addressing the Root Problems of the Refugee Crisis
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. –...
Responding to Refugeeism: A Three-Pronged Plan of Action
And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward. – Matthew...