more Strange(r) love
I must be onto something, since someone else is writing a entire book on my ideas. 
Peter Lim - Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee - is currently writing a book entitled Xenophobia to Philozenia: A Trinitarian Theology of Immigration. He is quoted in several recent articles about the New Sanctuary Movement (read their pledge), including one from Time magazine entitled, “Does the Bible Support Sanctuary?”
Lim, an Evangelical Christian and Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt Theological Seminary finds special meaning in the fact that the original Greek word for “hospitality” in this verse, “philoxenia,” is actually stronger. It means “the love of strangers.” Or, as he points out, the opposite of xenophobia.
And this from both the WSJ’s article blog and another Time magazine article, “A Church Haven for Illegal Aliens.”
On immigration (as opposed to, say, gay marriage) it is liberals who get to cite specific verses to sanction their cause, while anti-immigration conservatives must fall back on a “sense” of Scripture. “In the Old Testament, God speaks of being the God of the aliens about 103 times. That’s a lot,” says Paul Lim, a Vanderbilt University Divinity School professor writing a book on the theology of immigration. The New Testament, he notes, features not just Jesus’ famous criterion for the saved–”I was a stranger, and you welcomed me”–but, in its original Greek, an endorsement of philoxenia, xenophobia’s antonym.
I’m going to email him to find out when the book is due to be published.