Christians urged to think globally
Nicola Laver
Migration in the UK church context was the focus of a conference for 150-plus church leaders, theologians and other Christian workers at Oak Hill College.
It followed a report last year that found almost half (47%) of all migrants across the world are Christians. According to the report from Pew Research, 29% of migrants are Muslim.
Evangelicals and small boats
Some years ago the noted US pastor, theologian and writer Tim Keller wrote a book called Generous Justice.
In it, citing Zechariah 7v10-11, he highlights a ‘quartet of the vulnerable’ repeated throughout the Bible – ‘the widow, the fatherless, the immigrant... the poor.’ (He translates the Hebrew word gare as ‘immigrant’ rather than ‘foreigner’ or ‘alien’ as is more common, saying it ‘more accurately conveys to modern readers the meaning of the word.’)