Refuge Reimagined

<P><B>The global crisis of forced displacement is growing every year.</B> At the same time Western Christians' sympathy toward refugees is increasingly overshadowed by concerns about personal and national security economics and culture. We urgently need a perspective that understands both Scripture and current political realities and that can be applied at the levels of the church the nation and the globe.</P><P>In <I>Refuge Reimagined</I> Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville offer a new approach to compassion for displaced people: a biblical ethic of kinship. God's people they argue are consistently called to extend kinship-a mutual responsibility and solidarity-to those who are marginalized and without a home. Drawing on their respective expertise in Old Testament studies and international relations the two brothers engage a range of disciplines to demonstrate how this ethic is consistently conveyed throughout the Bible and can be practically embodied today.</P><P>Glanville and Glanville apply the kinship ethic to issues such as the current mission of the church national identity and sovereignty and possibilities for a cooperative global response to the refugee crisis. Challenging the fear-based ethic that often motivates Christian approaches they envision a more generous creative and hopeful way forward. <I>Refuge Reimagined</I> will equip students activists and anyone interested in refugee issues to understand the biblical model for communities and how it can transform our world.</P>