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Christians Responding to the Border Issue

I've waited a while to address the children at the border issue because I was researching and following all the claims being tossed around. I wanted to make sure I had the facts and not the sensationalized right or left wing "I don't care what the other side is saying, I'm right and you must listen to me" stuff we see in the media these days. Honestly, the vitriol in politics should scare us more than it does. Vilifying people based on the fact that we disagree with them is not the way to be heard. I can remember eighth-grade speech class and the persuasive speech we had to do and ZERO PERCENT of it was "this is the way I believe and if you don't follow suit then you're just plain wrong." In fact, we weren't supposed to say "I believe" in it at all, but I digress. When facing the very real problem happening on our border today, how should Christians respond? Like many people, I was first confronted with this issue by news r...