PhD Student Daniel Montañez interviewed in Sojourners article
The following is an excerpt from the Soujourners article “Ahead of election, evangelicals want sermons on immigration” by Ken Chitwood, featuring contributions by current PhD student Daniel Montañez. Click here to read the full article, originally published on March 27, 2024.
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‘Biblical, compassionate welcome’
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The Evangelical Immigration Table — a collective of religious leaders calling for bipartisan immigration solutions — also produces a range of resources to prompt Christians to think more biblically about immigration. Among them are prepared sermon outlines, helpful quotes, and examples of teaching related to immigration to help preachers “craft a biblically-faithful message that reflects God’s heart for immigrants.”
The website features examples of immigration-related sermons, including messages by Jenny Yang at Wheaton College in 2019, Ann Voskamp at Moody Bible Institute in 2020, and one from Daniel Montañez, theology professor and director of the Migration Crisis Initiative for the Church of God denomination. Montañez’s message, entitled “On a Theology of Migration,” tries to shift talk of “legal or illegal migration” to the biblical reality of “human migration, the movement of peoples.” Citing Genesis 1:28 and its imperative for humans to “fill the earth” as the first mention of migration in the Bible, Montañez says, “For humanity to fill the earth, they must first move.”
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