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Forging a Common Story
FREDERICK J. GAISER
(see full text of essay under “Editorial”)
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How do people forge a common story out of
many stories? How long does it take? And is something lost if that process
succeeds? The proper tension—between commonality and particularity—is tricky
to maintain. For healthy community, we need both: particularity within
community, a community that recognizes and celebrates difference.
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Articles
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Religion and Immigration, Old and New
MARK
GRANQUIST
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Two great waves of immigration since the middle of the nineteenth
century have had great impact on United States culture and
religion. While there have been tensions and conflicts, the benefits to both
the civil and religious communities continue to be striking.
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“No Longer Strangers” (Ephesians 2:19): The Ethics of
Migration
WILLIAM
O’NEILL
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The Christian gospel unfolds against the backdrop of exile and
redemption—of Israel in Egypt and the infant Jesus in Egypt.
Sharing this history of migration, the people of God, then and now, are
called to particular care for the most vulnerable members of society,
especially the immigrants.
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On Loving Strangers: Encountering the Mystery of God in
the Face of Migrants
MIGUEL
H. DÍAZ
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Reaching out to the immigrant is, for Christians, more
than an ethical duty; it partakes of the mystery of our encounter with God.
To love the neighbor is to love God. To recognize God in the face of the
other is to meet God sub contrario (in the opposite). To reflect on the
risk-taking border crossings of human migrants offers a way to reconceive the mystery of the Trinity, of how God crosses
over and welcomes us in Christ and the Spirit.
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Refugee Resettlement: One Congregation’s Transforming
Experience
JOANNE
KARVONEN
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Working in refugee sponsorship steadily since 1978,
Saint Anthony Park Lutheran Church has served at least thirty-five families
from fifteen countries. The work of this congregation has transformed the
lives of hundreds of refugees and their families, even as it has enlivened
and enlightened its own members.
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Perspectives
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Radical Hospitality: Sociotheological
Reflections on Postville,
Iowa
PETER KIVISTO and JASON MAHN
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Reflecting upon the raid by U.S.
immigration agents on a Postville, Iowa,
meatpacking plant can provide significant lessons
about multiculturalism and immigration politics as well as lessons about how
Christians might better cultivate radical hospitality.
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Maids for Madams: Toward a Theology of Global
Neighbors
LILIAN DUBE
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For all its touted economic efficiencies, globalization does not come
without great human costs. This unstoppable movement calls the church to
consider anew its role and its voice in support of the new migrants.
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Lutherans as Immigrants
STEPHEN PAUL BOUMAN
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Experiencing the
church today is to experience the church of our forebears. They were
immigrants, and so are the newcomers among us. We are all called together at
the table of the Lord.
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Resources
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Diversity, Difference, and Access to Power in
Diaspora: The Case of the Book of Esther
STEED VERNYL DAVIDSON
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“Diaspora,” more
than “exile,” assumes an open-ended absence from one’s land, making the
Bible’s diaspora stories valuable resources for
considerations of access to power and survival among immigrant peoples.
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Face to
Face: Ministry with Immigrants
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Blending the Cultures
PATRICK CABELLO
HANSEL
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Sharing the Mission
GLENN E.
BERG-MOBERG
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Texts in
Context: Putting on the Whole Armor of God: Preaching Ephesians 6:10–20 in a Multicultural Congregation
HOLLIE M. HOLT-WOEHL
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The tensions and struggles present both in the world and in our
congregations—perhaps especially in our multicultural and immigrant
congregations —require us to put on the whole armor of God for our
protection, our survival, and our thriving.
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Reviews
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Following God through Mark: Theological Tension in the
Second Gospel, by Ira Brent Driggers
JEANNINE
K. BROWN
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We Have Heard That
God Is with You: Preaching the Old Testament, by Rein Bos
JAMES LIMBURG
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Scripture, Culture,
and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading
of the Bible, by Ellen F. Davis
MICHAEL CHAN
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The Word of the
Cross in a World of Glory, by Philip Ruge-Jones
NATALIE GESSERT
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Nature’s Witness:
How Evolution Can Inspire Faith, by Daniel M. Harrell
ALAN G. PADGETT
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The Fidelity of
Betrayal: Towards a Church beyond Belief, by Peter Rollins
ANDREW ROOT
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Medieval Chrstianity, ed. by Daniel E. Bornstein
MARK
GRANQUIST
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Priesthood, Pastors,
Bishops: Public Ministry for the Reformation and Today, by Timothy J. Wengert
MICHAEL ROGNESS
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The Augustana Story, by Mark Granquist
and Maria Erling
SUSAN
TJORNEHOJ
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