The Institute for Cultural Engagement, an official program of Multnomah University and Biblical Seminary
PBS’s Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly featured Multnomah Biblical Seminary in their coverage of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science for Seminaries grant. New Wine, New Wineskins is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the grant in collaboration with seminary professors and our students. This video features interviews with Dr. Paul Louis Metzger and Multnomah students.
Please enjoy the show!
Churches have to think about immigration through several lens, which can make knowing how to act on various situations complex. Pastor Bill Hybels led his congregation at Willow Creek Community Church into a biblical exploration of immigration and what it meant for their church. He and Heather Larson interview Matthew Soerens of World Relief about his experience wrestling through these matters.
Our friends at G92 put together this short film called “A New Dream”. They say…
Immigration is a hot topic right now. But if all you see are the stories in the news, its easy to presume that those represent the majority of immigrants. It’s when you actually have personal relationships with immigrants that you begin to realize some of those stereotypes might not actually be accurate.
Dr. Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, discusses the policy solutions that evangelicals believe are necessary to repair our nation’s broken immigration system.
In a time when immigration has become a polarizing political issue, most Protestant Christians (91%, according to a 2010 Pew Research Center poll) admit that they do not primarily think about immigrants or immigration through the lens of their Christian faith.
In order to encourage those—both in local churches and in the halls of Congress—who profess to follow Jesus to allow their response to immigration to be infused with biblical values, the Evangelical Immigration Table has invited us to participate in a new initiative called “I Was a Stranger…,” which takes its name directly from Matthew 25:35, where Jesus says that by welcoming a stranger, we may be welcoming him. The focus of the challenge will be on inviting believers to read a short passage of Scripture each day for forty consecutive days that speaks to God’s heart for immigrants and to pray for the immigrants in their community.
We are in the midst of this challenge in the 40 days leading up to Immigration Reformation. Will you join us? Like us on Facebook or join the Immigration Reformation event to receive updates with the daily passages. You can even text 877877 to receive the daily passage on your phone.