27 August 2015, The Tablet

I would suggest that Joseph was ‘trafficked’ down to Egypt


 
On the whole, it would seem that Christians have responded generously to the migrant “crisis”, clearly seeing the plight of individuals as a proper cause for charity. But I sense that we need to go further – to see this movement of people globally with more solidarity and imaginative engagement because our identity and history and faith are bound up in this freedom to travel. Our “foundation story” (or myth, if you prefer) is a story of migrations. We tend to use the word “journeys”, but they are migrations in that they involve large groups or whole communities rather than individuals. In every case, the migrants are the heroes of the stories and those who refuse to receive them are the “baddies”. The Philistines, it is worth noticing,
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