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Involuntary migrationis a defining challenge of our time. More than 7 million people have already leftUkraine since the start of the war, and a recent study predicts that by 2050 morethan 140 million people in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asiacould be displaced as a result of climate change. Many Christians are familiarwith the idea that we each have a duty to care for the needy, including the‘strangers’, but what should they think about public policies about borders andmigration? What do Christian ideas and principles have to do with borderpolicing, or immigration control? In this lecture, Revd Dr Casey Strine willexplore the centrality of migration in the biblical narrative, and explore itsrelevance not just to our personal responses to others in need, but to thedifficult decisions our politicians face today.
Revd Dr Casey Strine studies the history, literature, and cultures of the ancient Near East with a specialization in ancient Israel and Judah, the two societies that produced the texts known widely as the Old Testament. He employs the study of migration to reconstruct ancient history and to interpret ancient texts, and is especially interested in how involuntary migration—people fleeing environmental disasters, war, or persecution in various forms—shapes societies, influences the ways groups construct their history, tell those stories, and respond to the other cultures they meet in their movements. He has a doctorate from the University of Oxford, and has published widely in scholarly journals. The monograph emerging from his thesis was awarded the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2015. He is also a Canon Theologian at Sheffield Cathedral.
