Dr. Mark Glanville discusses how churches can love the stranger because Yahweh loves the stranger so you are to love the stranger.

• Book: Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul
• Book: Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics

• Yahweh loves the stranger so you are to love the stranger
• Challenging the fear-based ethic approaches to refugees
• Banal, Sterile Life vs A Rich Feast

Dr. Mark Glanville trains pastors at Regent College, Vancouver, and is an Old Testament scholar.

Prior to coming to Regent, Mark pastored for 14 years in both Vancouver and Australia in urban, justice seeking churches.

Mark has been bi-vocational– combining reflective pastoring with biblical scholarship and is a trained jazz pianist, active on the Vancouver jazz scene.

• Deuteronomy 10 : 18-19 - Love the stranger

• Dr. Mark Glanville's website

02:02 - Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics

02:46 - Christians need to be different

03:12 - Book looks deeply into the questions and pushback of welcoming refugees

04:15 - Deuteronomy 10 : 18-19 Biblical scholarship on love the stranger

04:40 - Yahweh loves the stranger so you are to love the stranger

05:17 - Welcoming a stranger is very common in Old Testament ethics

06:10 - Mirroring the love and character of God

06:16 - Hebrew word for love = steadfast covenant loyalty

07:53 - Challenging the fear-based ethic approaches to refugees

08:16 - ...Preaching the scriptures very clearly

08:35 - ......not prooftexting, but displaying the gospel in our local neighborhood

09:07 - ......recovering every aspect of what it means to flourish

09:33 - ......the whole biblical story and playing our part faithfully

09:45 - ......choosing love & tenderness

09:58 - ...Proximity

10:02 - ......having real life experience with people who have a refugee story

10:20 - ......dispelling false fears

10:45 - ......not just the resilience, but the brilliance, of regufees

11:28 - .....live life in diversity and sharing lives

11:50 - ......partner with Christian refugee-welcoming organization

13:20 - Engaging the community in New York over food

14:25 - Banal, Sterile Life vs A Rich Feast

16:02 - ...as contrasted in a musical example of "Jesus Loves Me"

18:30 - the body of Christ exercising all their gifts

19:36 - Amazing Grace

21:46 - To get in touch with Dr. Glanville: glanville.org

22:33 - This is the Day the Lord Has Made

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