S8 Ep895: Asylum Seekers, Undocumented Immigrants, and the Gospel

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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"About 5% of what you see on the news reflects the reality of what’s going on at the border,” says pastor John Garland, who’s been living out the gospel at the border. In this fascinating conversation, Dr. Poe Hays and John Garland walk us through what it means to be a Christian and live out the kingdom of God toward a marginalized and misunderstood group of fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. And how the Psalms are a Spirit-inspired guide to trauma therapy.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. I have on the
0:03.6	show today two special guests. I know I really do two guests at the same time. And as you will
0:08.4	hear, having two guests at the same time did present a few challenges to the internet connection.
0:16.0	There's a lot of data coming through, but we worked out most of the things. So you should be able to
0:19.5	get 98% of what we talked about. It was such a invigorating conversation about immigration,
0:27.6	about asylum seekers, about the the the deep chasm that exists between the narratives
0:36.4	being retold on mainstream news outlets and actually what's happening on the ground around the
0:42.3	border between America and Mexico. This is a fascinating conversation. You're going to be
0:47.6	challenged. You're going to hear stuff you probably never even thought about before. And I'm excited
0:52.4	for you to engage this conversation. I'm still just reeling from our our scintillating talk that we
1:00.0	had. Dr. Rebecca Poes is a assistant professor of Christian scriptures at Baylor at Truett Seminary,
1:06.6	which is part of Baylor University. She has a PhD from Baylor University. And that's where she teaches
1:12.2	biblical Hebrew Old Testament and the Psalms. She's also the author of the recently released
1:16.7	academic book called The Function of Story in the Hebrew Salter. John Garland is the pastor of
1:23.2	San Antonio of the San Antonio Minute Night Church and Chaplain of the Interfaith Welcome Coalition.
1:28.3	He became a pastor of this church in 2016 during an immigration crisis that has dramatically
1:34.4	shaped the church and its ministry. John's currently doing doctoral work on a on communal trauma
1:41.4	spiritual resilience and the Psalms, which is a lot of what we talk about in this conversation.
1:48.1	So I'm excited for you to engage it. Yeah, I'm just going to leave it at that. I'm excited for
1:55.5	you to hear their perspective on what's going on down at the border. If you would like to support
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