839: Thinking Christianly about Immigration: Dr. Danny Carroll

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🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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What does the Bible—not culture, not democrats, not republicans, but the freakin’ word of God!—say about immigration? In this podcast, Danny and Preston sit down to talk about what the Bible says about immigration, including how to respond to undocumented immigrants, and also how this intersects with politics and culture on the issue.

Dr. Carroll is half-Guatemalan and was raised bilingual and bicultural. In his youth, he spent many summers in Guatemala and later taught at El Seminario Teológico Centroamericano in Guatemala City for thirteen years. The realities of Central America sparked Dr. Carroll's fascination with the Old Testament. The relevance of the biblical text for the challenges of poverty, war, and politics in those developing countries led him to a passionate focus on Old Testament social ethics and the social sciences.

In addition, his studies in English literature and literary theory have generated an ongoing engagement with literary approaches to the Old Testament and critical studies. Experiences in this country and abroad have led him to a deep appreciation for the unique contributions that ethnic minorities, women, and the global church make to the interpretation of the Old Testament. Before coming to Wheaton, Dr. Carroll taught Old Testament at Denver Seminary for many years and founded a Spanish-language lay training program there. At Wheaton, he hopes to model a commitment to connecting careful biblical scholarship with the mission of the church as it engages today’s complex realities. Dr. Carroll has been involved in Hispanic churches and teaching on the Bible and immigration for many years. His research focuses on the prophetic literature and Old Testament social ethics. He has just completed a major commentary on the book of Amos.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. I am so excited about
0:04.5	this episode because I have on the show, the one and only, Dr. Danny Carroll. I've been a huge
0:09.6	fan of Dr. Carroll for many years. Specifically, after I read his book, Christians at the border,
0:16.9	which came out 2018, Dr. Carroll has become kind of evangelicals resident expert on thinking
0:23.2	biblical, biblically and theologically about immigration and migration and refugees and so on and
0:31.0	so forth. Dr. Carroll is, he's half Guatemalan. He was raised in a bilingual and bi-cultural household.
0:38.0	He also lived in Guatemala City for 13 years where he taught at, I'm not going to try and pronounce
0:43.8	this, a seminary in Guatemala City. And he's, I just, I love his posture. I love his wisdom. He's
0:51.5	incredibly knowledgeable when it comes to the Bible. And he has, he's released a more recent book
0:57.6	that just came out last year called The Bible and Borders. Hearing God's word on immigration,
1:03.2	I would highly recommend checking this book out. It's not very long. It's like 150 pages.
1:08.0	It's very accessible, but Dr. Carroll is a renowned Old Testament scholar. So there's lots of
1:15.1	academic credibility that goes into this book, but there's also lots of personal
1:20.4	experience in terms of thinking through the topic of immigration from a biblical,
1:25.5	theological perspective. If you'd like to support the show, you can go to patreon.com. You can
1:30.7	support the show for as little as five bucks a month or more, and you get access to other premium
1:36.8	content that I release throughout the month. And you also get the joy and satisfaction of
1:41.7	joining the theology in the rock community. Okay, without further ado, let's welcome to the show.
1:47.1	The one and only, Dr. Danny Carroll.
2:05.6	All right, hello friends. I'm back with my, well, I want to say a new friend, Danny Carroll,
2:12.0	but Danny has been a name I've known for a long time. I have assigned his books and courses I've
2:19.0	taught over the years and just learned a ton about what the Bible has to say about immigration,
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