Immigration with Holy Imagination
The AND campaign explores how to approach immigration not with fear or rage, but with a holy imagination rooted in justice, compassion, and neighbor-love.
The AND Campaign has launched a brand new podcast about personal immigration stories, the challenges and victories within the immigrant community, and how to respond to harmful narratives with grace. These conversations invite listeners to approach immigration not with fear or rage, but with a holy imagination rooted in justice, compassion, and neighbor-love.
It aligns with AND Campaigns mission to combat tribalism and political polarization.
In this powerful pilot episode, host Krista Idowu reflects on Esther’s courageous “holy resistance” and invites listeners to consider what it means to be positioned “for such a time as this.” She is joined by Daniel Yang, Senior Director of Global Mission & Church Movements at World Relief, whose family fled the Secret War in Laos and was welcomed to the U.S. by a small Lutheran church—an act of hospitality that transformed generations.
Uniting (&) Mobilizing to Love our Immigrant Neighbors
According to World Relief, tens of millions of people around the world have been forced to leave their homes due to conflict, persecution, and hardship—and nearly half of them are children. This ongoing global crisis calls the church to wrestle with the tension between the biblical mandates for an orderly society and to love the stranger.
In a time when immigration is often used to divide, the AND Campaign is working to unite believers around a Christlike response; one rooted in both conviction and compassion. We’re mobilizing churches and civic leaders to advocate for policies that uphold human dignity, promote justice, and reflect biblical hospitality. Loving our immigrant neighbors means more than words; it implies action, standing with families, amplifying their stories, and pursuing solutions that honor both the rule of law and the call to love our neighbor as ourselves.
We invite you to check out the pilot above. You’ll find additional episodes below.
In this episode of Immigration with Holy Imagination, host Krista Idowu sits down with Pastor Mardochee Pardieu and Dr. Watson Escarment of Good Samaritan Haitian Alliance Church (GSHAC) to explore what a Christ-centered, justice-rooted approach to immigration can look like in our time.
Recorded on Ash Wednesday, this conversation is grounded in Isaiah 58:6–7, a passage that redefines fasting as loosening the chains of injustice, sharing bread with the hungry, and providing shelter for the wanderer.
In this deeply moving episode of Immigration with Holy Imagination, Krista Idowu sits down with Pastor Ara Torosian, an Iranian-American Armenian pastor, refugee, and advocate whose journey of faith has been marked by persecution, courage, and radical obedience to Jesus.
Born and raised in Iran during the rise of the Islamic regime, Pastor Ara shares how encountering the Gospel transformed his life as a teenager and ultimately led him to follow Jesus despite the threat of persecution, imprisonment, and torture. Together, Krista and Ara explore what it means to remain faithful under pressure, the spiritual awakening happening inside Iran’s underground church, and why the Church is called to become a refuge for vulnerable people.
What does it look like for the Church to embody the Kingdom of God in a time of uncertainty, division, and displacement? In this powerful episode of Immigration with Holy Imagination, Krista Idowu sits down with Pastor Kaitlin “Kata” Ho Givens, Lead Pastor of Resurrection Church in East Boston, to explore what it means for the Church to embody the Kingdom of God in a time of uncertainty, division, and displacement.
Drawing from Jesus’ teaching in the Beatitudes, Kata reflects on how Christ invites His followers into a radically different way of living—one marked by mercy, peacemaking, humility, and a hunger for righteousness. Through stories of accompaniment, detention ministry, community care, and advocacy, she shares how her congregation has become a refuge for immigrant neighbors navigating fear, family separation, and legal uncertainty.
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Our own Pastor Chris Butler returns as co-host of the Church Politics podcast to discuss with AND’s Justin Giboney the racial and political divide in the Church based on a new poll. They also talk about Democratic Socialism and its recent victories.
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