If Your Church Won't Speak Out About a Deported Father (and Thousands More Like Him)—It May as Well Cancel Easter

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Apr 15, 2025 · 4m

As a former pastor of over two decades, I could seriously throw up right now.

The Trump Administration wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a father of four, to a brutal prison in El Salvador and it is defiantly refusing to honor a SCOTUS ruling ordering him to be returned to his family.

A flesh-and-blood human being made in the image of God (in Christian langauge) is knowingly being denied his human and civil rights by our president, separated from his family, and being traumatized in ways none of us can fathom.

And in this same week leading into the Easter holiday, pastors all over this…