This morning I awakened from yet another night of fitful unrest.
My sleep has been disrupted, again, because of the mistreatment of brown children.
How does it make sense to smile while separating children from their parents because they are neighbors and immigrants, but not white?
At the borders of this country, children and families are living a terror induced nightmare.
We call this holy sacred ground?
Those who read the Bible in its entirety know that it is complex but most of us cannot avoid the ethical demands that come with texts teaching us how to treat strangers and newcomers among us.
33 “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
34 The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you,
and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt:
I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19:33-34 NSRV)
In this reading, the text only makes two demands for a moral life: do not mistreat the stranger and love the stranger as yourself. Continue reading ““Morning” by Phillis Isabella Sheppard”
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