I had really mixed feelings about this book. One the one hand it was incredibly well documented and spoke to where so many Christians are, including those currently or recently migrating. On the other hand whilst reading it was the first time I ever recall reading several pages and then realized I was thinking about something else completely the whole time I read it. I'm not sure how that's actually possible. It also has the same problem I see about many Christian works, even left leaning ones, that it just doesn't feel radical enough.

Carrol is a professor of Old Testament studies at a Christian university and it shows in his writing. Something like 3/4 of the book was the chapter on what the Old Testament says. That's unusual for a Christian book, but then again the Old Testament is 3/4 of the Bible.He shows all the people that were forced to migrate both within a country and across borders. The reasons they moved were the same reasons people do today. All through the Bible God shows that his people are the ones on the move, and in the promised land they are supposed to care for those that are traveling or reside about you that are different. He does a good job arguing against the right-wing talking points, particularly those based on Romans 13.

I did have a hard time accepting some things, like how whilst a Christian can fight for 100% open borders, he doesn't have to. In particular I found frightening his statement in the intro that if you do identify the horrible treatment of immigrants in the U.S. Americans should still love their country, particularly as he doesn't expand on that in the rest of the book.

I identify that a lot of the problems I see here may well be problems with me and not with Mr. Carrol.

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