Is support of national borders unloving to immigrants and in conflict with

Christian compassion? Is the biggest threat from artificial intelligence not the

possibility of it becoming conscience, but it making us

less human.

And how in medicine the morally unthinkable can become normalized.

These are some of the stories and topics we will discuss today and

we also address some of your excellent questions you've sent in. I'm your host Sean

McDow and I'm your co-host Scott Ray. This is the Think Bivocally weekly cultural update brought to you by

Talbot School Theology Biola University. Scott this first story you sent me

is really really interesting we've talked about immigration quite a bit on

this podcast, but I don't think we've addressed it on the weekly cultural update.

This is a piece that you sent to me. It's called a theology of immigration by Brad Little

John and I'm going to just lay out for folks some of the ideas here because it's

going to take a little bit of just kind of a little bit of development here.

It starts off by Tom at how the debate over immigration is just tearing the church apart

and the differences between Mainline, which tend to say things like love has no borders, and evangelical Christians,

according to the article as a whole, demand a wall.

Now he makes a point that Tom Holland, who's not a Christian, who has written a fascinating book called Dominion, and he's argued that throughout history it's actually Western nation shaped by a Christian worldview that made the idea of welcoming the stranger even thinkable about love for neighbors.

So he considers that a good throughout history that he attributes to Christian kind of charity and love for neighbor.

Now here's what he argues for in this article and this is the author of the piece little John he says in my

estimation secure borders national sovereignty and limited immigration are

affirmed by traditional Christian moral theology.

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