Bible Repeatedly Commands Us to Welcome Strangers; "Bible-Believing" Christians Focus Instead on Homosexuality and Abortion

As Matthew Schmalz points out in the Religion News Service article I shared a few minutes ago, the Hebrew and Christian scriptures are FULL OF references to the "stranger" or the "alien." And all the verses speaking of the stranger or alien tell us we have a sacred obligation to welcome and provide for the stranger/alien in our midst.

Holy War, Blowing Everything Up, White Supremacy, and "Pro-Life" White Christians: Commentary for Your Consideration

Two-thirds of white evangelicals believe America doesn't have a moral responsibility to accept Syrian refugees.
https://t.co/yy0Pi5OHhK

— Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) January 30, 2017

Rachel Held Evans responds to the tweet above from Christianity Today:

Can Someone PLEASE Get Word to Archbishop Chaput That Banning Refugees and Ripping Away Healthcare Coverage Are Not "Pro-Life"?

P.S. Can someone please get a few of the tweets (with shocking photos attached) featured in my last posting to His Excellency Archbishop Charles Chaput, as he praises the current president as a champion of life and castigates the president's critics? The disconnect between . . . oh, let's be daring and call it reality (the real world and unvarnished truth about it) . . . and what His Excellency wants to sound forth in the name of a "pro-life" ethic is, well, downright embarrassing.

"Life Is Winning Again in America": Executive Order Banning Muslim Refugees on Holocaust Remembrance Day, As Pro-Life Christians Celebrate

Now banned from entering the U.S. --> pic.twitter.com/dsvsrvhC5O

— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) January 28, 2017

Willa Frej and Elise Foley, "Trump Targets Muslims, Refugees in New Executive Order Issued on Holocaust Remembrance Day":

"We don’t want them here," he said.

When No One Was Gay: We Must Not Deceive Ourselves; It Can Happen Again. In a Heartbeat.

New York Times, 2 July 1937, p. 1, col. 6-7

It's the late 1980s or possibly early 1990s. I'm at my first full-time teaching job in the theology department of Xavier University in New Orleans.

When my colleague comes to work one morning, eyes blackened, face bruised all over, limping, we rush to him to ask what has happened, how we might help. 

Lions' Dens Are Not Comfortable Places for Humans: A Post-Trial Report on Psychopaths and Those Who Prop Them Up

4 in 5 white evangelicals, 3 in 5 white Catholics and Mormons — "pro-life" voters — brought us the Trump nightmare.

I will not forget.

— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) December 15, 2016

I'm back from the trial in which I testified. Back, and thinking about psychopaths . . . . As my friend Wendell Griffen says in a posting he made at his Justice is a verb! blog a day ago, "Reasonable people do not wittingly employ a psychopath for morally and socially responsible work."

Into Lions' Den Again: I Will Appreciate Your Thoughts and Prayer As I Testify Again in Trial

Dear Readers,

I appreciate your comments here very much. The primary reason I haven't been able to reply to or acknowledge them in the past several days is that I have been called to give testimony in a trial. I wrote about this trial several years ago when I previously gave testimony in it — here and here.