When immigration enforcement and religious conviction collide
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Faith communities across Minnesota are facing a hard question: What happens when federal immigration enforcement collides with religious conviction?
A recent protest inside a church has also raised questions about free speech, religious freedom and the role of faith leaders in moments of moral conflict.
MPR News guest host Catharine Richert explores how churches and other religious communities are responding to the legal and moral questions raised by federal actions in Minnesota and why immigration enforcement has become such a flashpoint for people of faith.
Guests:
Greg Boyd is a theologian and senior pastor at Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul. He blogs at ReKnew.org and is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including “Myth of a Christian Nation” and "God looks like Jesus.”
Stephanie Williams O’Brien is the lead pastor at Mill City Church in northeast Minneapolis. She is also a professor of ministry at Bethel University and Seminary in St. Paul.
The Rev. Lucas Woodford is the president of the Minnesota South District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. He also pastors a congregation in Farmington.
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