The Power of Formation and Activation

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Curtis: How do we help break through that mistrust through these kinds of conversations, particularly when we're talking about topics of say racial justice? Curtis: At the end of the day it really boils down to relationships. Relationships are how we build trust. Brian Stevenson says that we have to get proximate to the problems we're trying to solve. And what I would say is that starts by getting proximally to the people and recognizing them not as a subject that we need to like help but so we can learn and build together.

One cannot make sense of the deformation of the current conservative movement without understanding immigration. And one cannot grasp the nature of immigration without understanding anxiety. Like most political issues today, the topic of immigration is bathed in anxiety - for everyone on all sides. Curtis draws these connections, with the ultimate aim to show that Christians can uniquely contribute to the conversation about immigration because we have uniquely good news about anxiety. This episode draws from Curtis’ talk at a convening of the National Immigration Forum in Ohio that included local pastors and civic leaders.

January 6 Was Practice, The Atlantic, January 2022 by Barton Gellman

Pew Research Center on Immigration and Politics

Immigration and far-right voting : New evidence (from Europe) from the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)