Migration Theologies

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The image is of Rev. Dr. Miguel De La Torre from the Juicy Ecumenism website. The article titled, ““I don’t want your hospitality. I want my damn house back,” argues that “churches aiming to show ‘hospitality’ to immigrants offer ‘the worst thing you could ever say or do’,” because the hospitality offered is out of wealth accumulated from theft through colonialism. Restitution is the stance the church should take!


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