The Stranger Among You. How the Faith-Based Refugee Resettlement Movement is Shattering Our Red and Blue Silos 12+

📗 Where do secular liberals and religious conservatives stand shoulder to shoulder? In refugee resettlement. It turns out that a literal reading of the Bible dovetails neatly with what some see is as a liberal cause. But refugee resettlement is not blue or red. It's a unifying cause, as documented in “The Stranger Among You: How the Faith-Based Refugee Resettlement Movement is Shattering Our Red and Blue Silos.”The book covers a national movement in the Bible Belt and other red states that sees evangelicals and other religious conservatives taking the words of the Bible literally and treating the foreigner as their neighbor, and that neighbor as their brother or sister. These are people seeking to live the words of the Bible in Matthew, John, and Leviticus by helping the very refugees the Trump administration seeks to keep out of the country. And in doing so they are reaching out to the community beyond their church doors. The result: Trump voters and Clinton voters, pro-lifers and pro-choicers, the religious and the secular are leaving their political comfort zones to work in solidarity to support refugees here in the U.S. It’s a grassroots movement flying beneath the radar of professional prognosticators and armchair political junkies. Pundits both professional and amateurs look at the big numbers—80 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump (they always vote Republican)—and miss the story behind them. And that is the fact that not everyone who is Republican or religi...