People Are Dying In Your Neighborhood: What Do You Do? Randy Mayer and Humanitarian Aid in the Arizona Desert
Season 2, Episode 211, Nov 14, 2019, 10:04 AM
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard arguments regarding DACA, the Obama-era policy that defers action on the deportation of young people who were brought to this country unlawfully as children. Keeping with this theme of border and immigration issues, today on What In God’s Name we talk to Randy Mayer, who leads a humanitarian relief ministry to migrants coming across the border in the desert area of Arizona.
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Here are timecodes to help you navigate through today’s show:
03:14 Shayna provides a roadmap for this, part one of our interview with Randy Mayer.
04:05 Randy introduces himself and his humanitarian work with the Green Valley-Sahuarita Samaritans.
05:37 Is the Bible a handbook on immigration? Do you have to be a seasoned host to be a Christian?
07:35 What could it possibly mean, that to be a Good Samaritan is to be a bad American?
10:40 If a nation’s law is wrong, do people of conscience have an obligation to stand up and do the right thing, even if it means breaking the law? How can we discern if a law is wrong or unjust?
15:32 The solutions to these problems at the border are not political, the solutions are with people. Discuss.
18:00 You owe it to yourself, you owe it to your country to be face to face with an immigrant. Why? What is the power of this encounter?
22:15 The Samaritan doesn’t ask what will happen to me if I help that person, she asks, what will happen to that person if I don’t help. What flips in that simple re-framing?
24:37 Hospitality is the core of Christianity. If Christians actually acted as though this were true, how would the practice of Christianity be different in our culture? How would Christianity be perceived differently?
27:23 When my story becomes part of your internal landscape, God is present in that moment. If this is an accurate picture of who God is, how would we characterize the heart of God?