Welcome to culture and Christianity.

As you know by now, I suspect our goal is to take our faith outside the walls of the church

and try to understand what's happening in our world with a bit of a biblical perspective.

A Judeo-Christian worldview, a biblical worldview, there's a few labels for that,

but in essence the same thing, we want to take the truth we believe about Scripture and try to

understand our world through those grids and filters. So we have a new Pope, and I want to spend some time talking about that.

I stepped in a bit of a hole around that on Easter weekend.

I'll tell you about that in a minute.

But a couple of things that have been a little more current that I just want to comment on before I get into this,

because I'm afraid I'll lose my train of thought.

We continue to have this national discussion around illegal immigrants,

and now the judiciary is involved, and it's ultimately, I think, going to get pushed to the

Supreme Court. And there seems to be a lot of confusion in the Christian community about how to process

this, where compassion falls and where is kindness?

And should we be upholding the law or should we be extending a hand of welcome?

And what about what the Bible says about aliens and being kind to them?

And a couple of things on that that I think just I keep kind of revisiting this because we have seems to have difficulty in holding a

position or an idea. The simple version of this is that if you entered our country without

concern for due process, if you purposely avoided due process, we have a legal immigration

system in place and we've had some 20 million

people in our country choosing to bypass the due process of the legal immigration system.

Well, if you come into the country with no concern for due process, then it seems to me there

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