Daniel Yang: How Should Christians Think About Immigration?
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🗓️ 20 October 2025
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*note: At 14:34 Daniel mentions that there were 900 in the apartment complex raided by ICE in Chicago. However after the recording he confirmed that 900 is the total number of people detained during Operation Midway Blitz at the time of the raid, and not the total number detained that day.
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Daniel Yang serves as the Senior Director of Global Mission and Church Movements for World Relief. Prior to that he was the director of the Church Multiplication Institute at the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center. Daniel has been a pastor, church planter, engineer and technology consultant. He has planted churches in Detroit, Dallas, Toronto, and Chicago, either as the lead planter or through recruiting, training, assessing, and mentoring church planters.
Daniel is a sought-after conference speaker, missional strategist, consultant, and co-author of Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church (InterVarsity, May 2022) and Becoming a Future-Ready Church: 8 Shifts to Encourage and Empower the Next Generation of Leaders (Zondervan, October 2024).
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| 0:00.0 | Our nationality has borders, but when we operate from our Christian identity, we're part of borderless kingdom. |
| 0:08.0 | And so it forces you to kind of think outside and transcend, you know, this current iteration of policies. |
| 0:13.4 | And it forces you to think about like a long-term posture towards the world that is out there and then also the world that's come into your community. |
| 0:26.1 | The Exiles in Babylon Conference is happening again, folks. April 30th through May 2nd |
| 0:32.0 | in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We're going to be talking about artificial intelligence, |
| 0:36.4 | Christians and war, mental health in the gospel, |
| 0:38.9 | is the Bible historically reliable, and how Christians should think about immigration. |
| 0:45.0 | We have so many thoughtful engaging speakers who will be at the conference, Shane Claiborne, Dan |
| 0:49.0 | Allender, Peter, and Sandy Richter, and many others, including a couple leaders from World Relief, who will be guiding |
| 0:55.0 | us in the Christians and Immigration session, which leads me to my guest for today's episode. |
| 1:02.3 | Daniel Yang serves as the Senior Director of Global Mission and Church Movement for World Relief, |
| 1:07.7 | and our conversation is all about immigration. |
| 1:12.1 | Prior to his position at World Relief, Daniel was the director of the Church Multiplication Institute at the Wheaton College |
| 1:16.8 | Billy Graham Center. And Daniel has been a pastor, church planner, engineer, and technology |
| 1:21.5 | consultant. He's also the co-author of the book, Inalienable, How marginalized kingdom voices can help save the American Church. |
| 1:30.8 | How's that for our title? |
| 1:32.1 | And becoming a future ready church, eight shifts to encourage and empower the next generation of leaders. |
| 1:38.0 | So please welcome to the show for the first time, the one or only, Daniel Yang. |
| 1:46.8 | Daniel, welcome to Theology Raw. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Really appreciate it. Hey, thanks for having me, Preston. So what, |
| 1:50.9 | so you have been at World Relief for a couple years. You now serve as a senior director of |
| 1:55.8 | global mission and church movements for World Relief. Can you tell us more about the work that you do? |
| 2:03.1 | Give us the nitty-gritty. |
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