"Walter Bugman talks about the quartet of the vulnerable, when the God in the Hebrew Bible gets angry, it's usually that someone has not protected the orphan, the Widow, the alien, stranger, Sojourner, immigrant, or the poor.

And, if we try and take on a Christian identity to shore up an unstable sense of self, and to exclude the other, it's really hard to read the new testament texts with any sense of integrity.

The call to love your enemy as yourself, welcome the stranger... feed the hungry, visit the prisoner... that ethical strand which is only one strand braided, would say it's the true strand... whatever you think about immigration policy if you are not welcoming the stranger you have missed something." - Elizabeth Oldfield