La Sagrada Familia, by Kelly Latimore
This icon appeared on my Facebook feed a few days ago. It’s viscerally powerful and I’ve been thinking about it quite a bit since I first saw it. Ms. Latimore’s implicit message is that how we regard Central American refugees is how we regard Christ, who himself fled to a foreign country to escape violence (Matthew 2:13-15).
I later found this icon illustrating a post written by a Christian blogger who insisted that God wants our country to adopt essentially an open-border policy. But surely it’s not that simple, even if we accept the icon’s underlying message.