Re-examining the call to love the stranger

In 2015, one image of a three-year-old boy washed up on a beach in Turkey changed the way the world saw asylum seekers.

That terrible morning, every newspaper displayed Alan Kurdi’s body front and centre. His story was not only desperately sad, but intensely disturbing. No human being with a conscience could look at his picture for long - or, indeed, turn away from it.

That day, I began a journey into the Bible that led me to re-examine the call to love the stranger.