Romans 13 and ICE Under Trump Administration

“Ideas have consequences…” was a refrain in my Foundations of Christian Thought course from my first semester at Biola University, now 23 years ago. It speaks to both the truth and the seriousness of that refrain that it has stuck with me all these years and animated my efforts to think carefully about what Scripture does and does not say about politics and the exercise of state power. It’s probably why I have a special sort of disdain for sloppy political theology that occludes the thinking of Christians earnestly seeking to discern God’s will. So, it’s been with frustrated interest that I’ve followed the intra-Christian debate over immigration policy in America being mapped onto events in Minneapolis over the last couple of months.