Bishops on the Border: Pastoral Responses to Immigration
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Bishops on the Border: Pastoral Responses to Immigration
By (Author) Steven Talmage
By (author) Kirk Smith
By (author) Minerva Carcano
By (author) Mark Adams
By (author) Gerald Kicanas
Church Publishing Inc
Morehouse Publishing
2nd January 2014
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Religious social and pastoral thought and activity
Physical Properties
Paperback
160
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Description
Ecumenical examination of immigration issues drawn from engaging, first-person narratives.
A group of bishops (Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, and United Methodist), all based along the US-Mexico border, found common ground to jointly address some key immigration issues, especially those being played out in the state of Arizona. The bishops worked together on behalf of local immigrant populations to address theological and pastoral concerns-and prayed for those whose lives were being directly affected. This book grows out of their shared work and the relationships that developed among them.
Author Bio
Kirk Smith was elected Bishop of Arizona in 2003 and lives in Phoenix. He has servedparishes in Connecticut and California. With an undergraduate degree in history, Smithearned a PhD in medieval church history from Cornell University. He studied for holyorders at Berkeley Seminary at Yale before being ordained a priest in 1980 through theauspices of his home diocese of Arizona. He lives in Phoenix, AZ.
