You Welcomed Me

<P><B>Wait Dad. Are we <I>for</I> them or <I>against</I> them?</B>Kent Annan was talking with his eight-year-old son about the immigrant and refugee crises around the world. His son's question innocent enough in the moment is writ large across our society today. How we answer it Annan says will reveal a lot about what kind of family community or country we want to be.In <I>You Welcomed Me</I> Annan explores how fear and misunderstanding often motivate our responses to people in need and invites us instead into stories of welcome-stories that lead us to see the current refugee and immigrant crisis in a new light. He lays out simple practices for a way forward: confessing what separates us listening well and partnering with not patronizing those in need. His stories draw us in and his practices send us out prepared to cross social and cultural divides.In this wise practical book Annan invites us to answer his son's question with confident conviction: We're <I>for</I> them-and to explore with him the life-giving implications of that answer.</P>