John W. Welch

A Nation of Immigrants

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Marshalling years of serious study, Hiers condenses centuries of civilization into a coherent bundle of positive impressions from ages past. Then and now, strangers are not so strange after all. All are strangers facing strange circumstances. . . . As Heirs rightly concludes, the legacy of biblical life and law is to diminish the stigma of foreignness.”