All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen, they want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. They want justice from us. But we can give it to them only through the love which listens.
“I hate Trump,” I blurted out to a friend who was complaining about how emotional politics had become in recent days. We were socially distanced on lawn chairs in my driveway for this conversation, but—despite my best efforts—I could not distance myself emotionally.
We caught up with Mark Glanville and Luke Glanville to talk about their latest book from InterVarsity Press, Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics. In Refuge Reimagined, the two brothers offer a new approach to compassion for displaced people: a biblical ethic of kinship.