Christians Should Be Standing Between ICE and Immigrants

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Nov 20, 2025 · 4m

Every church welcomes everyone. Just look at their website, it says so, clear as day.

Every church is an “all-people church”. There it is on massive LED screens in their pristine lobby as proof.

Every church loves its neighbors. It’s in vibrant bold type on their volunteer t-shirts, so it must be true.

There isn’t a Christian faith community in this country that doesn’t profess to be committed to caring for everyone in their path in a way that emulates Jesus.

But often, something happens in the journey between aspiration and incarnation, when platitudes and slogans and scriptures need to be…