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We’re reading the beginning of of Exodus in church tomorrow, and I’m not preaching on it, but I’m gonna post about it.
Because if you’re worried about immigrants taking over your country, you have more in common with the Egyptians in this story than the Hebrew people.
Because if you’re worried about immigrants taking over your country, you have more in common with the Egyptians in this story than the Hebrew people.
If you’re forcing your immigrant labor to work under increasingly difficult circumstances with fewer resources and less pay, you might have more in common with the Egyptians in Exodus than with the God’s people.
And Exodus contains so many stories of subversive women doing whatever they need to do to protect their families and other people’s babies, and we remember them as faithful heroes. Some of them are explicitly providers of reproductive healthcare.
And if you are protecting immigrant children, even if you have to lie to the authorities to do it, that’s faithful to the God we worship.
And we’re explicitly told that compassionate women rescuing immigrant children from the water is how God saves the people.
And we’re explicitly told that compassionate women rescuing immigrant children from the water is how God saves the people.
And even the privileged women have a role in the protection of God’s people. Especially when they’re willing to work hand in hand with the women experiencing oppression, and listen to their ideas.
It’s a story for our time. Go and do likewise.
It’s a story for our time. Go and do likewise.
