Hosted by Dominique DuBois Gilliard | Featuring Dr. Terence Lester, Dr. Emiola Oriola Jr., Amanda Kaminski, and Daniel Yang

What does it mean to belong? In a world marked by displacement, housing insecurity, migration, loneliness, community violence, and growing social fragmentation, the search for home has become one of the defining spiritual and social questions of our time. Yet throughout Scripture, home is about far more than a physical place. It is about welcome, safety, identity, memory, dignity, and the deep human desire to be known and loved within a community.

Join Christians for Social Action for a timely and thought-provoking conversation exploring a theology of home and its implications for the challenges facing our neighborhoods, churches, and society today.

Hosted by Dominique DuBois Gilliard, this conversation brings together leaders whose work spans homelessness advocacy, immigration and diaspora studies, community development, pastoral ministry, and public theology. Together, they will explore how biblical themes of exile, hospitality, neighboring, and belonging can help us better understand—and faithfully respond to—the realities of homelessness, migration, isolation, and disconnection.

As followers of Jesus, we are called not only to care for those on the margins but also to cultivate communities where people are seen, welcomed, and valued. What might it look like for the Church to move beyond charity and become a place of genuine belonging? How might a richer understanding of home reshape our approach to justice, mission, and community life?

Whether you are a pastor, community leader, advocate, student, or simply someone wrestling with questions of belonging in an increasingly disconnected world, this conversation will offer theological insight, practical wisdom, and hopeful imagination for what it means to create spaces where all people can flourish. Perhaps the question before the Church today is not simply how we help people find home, but whether we are willing to become home for one another.

The idea for this webinar began with the publication of Dr. Terence Lester and Dr. Emiola Oriola Jr.’s article, 
Rethinking Home: Belonging, Displacement, and Dignity in a World Built to Exclude.