Join other adults each Sunday in April (7, 14, 21, 28) at 9:30 in the Session Room for “Making Moral Arguments about Immigration,” led by the Candler Foundry’s Janelle Moore, a doctoral student at Emory who taught a class for us during the pandemic and is an amazing scholar and teacher, and who has worked with a few of our Saint Luke’s members through Memorial Drive Ministries. Moore will lead us in an important conversation about immigration.
Making Moral Arguments about Immigration and Refugee Resettlement
“Listen. The quick version of this story is useless. Let’s agree to have a complicated conversation.”–Daniel Nayeri
This four-week class tackles the challenges of discussing immigration head-on. Each week, we will take up a contemporary argument about immigration and refugee resettlement, analyze the ethical framework and norms that underpin it, and place that argument in conversation with theological resources. Drawing on sources ranging from the news and novels to scripture and the arts, we will analyze principle-based arguments about coming “the right way,” utilitarian arguments about economic impact, virtue-based arguments about the kind of nation the U.S. “actually” is, and, finally, care- and responsibility-oriented arguments that foreground our local, communal, and societal relationships. Finally, we will conclude class by identifying moral arguments that both reflect our respective ethical and theological commitments and resonate in our communities.