Of Bread and Salt

How do we, as people of God, respond to the complex issues surrounding immigration? I am reminded of those wonderful passages in the Hebrew Bible, those verses where God reminds God’s people to be hospitable to foreigners.

God puts it simply: “You all have been there and done that. You all know how hard it is to be away from home. You know the challenges of being a foreigner in a strange land. So you ought to know better. Be good and help out the foreign people in your midst.”

But for the sake of keeping it real, instead of those nice scriptures, I want to look at this one, Mark 7:24-30:

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Sojourners Magazine March 2010
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