{"id":6898,"date":"2017-09-12T22:27:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/12\/in-necessity-all-things-are-common-christian-ethics-and-daca\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:58:25","slug":"in-necessity-all-things-are-common-christian-ethics-and-daca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/in-necessity-all-things-are-common-christian-ethics-and-daca\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;In necessity all things are common\u2019: Christian ethics and DACA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Few Christians question the responsibility of governments to guard their borders against criminals and terrorists,&#8221; writes Furman Religion professor David Fink in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/09\/09\/necessity-all-things-common-christian-ethics-and-daca\/646514001\/\"><em><strong>The Greenville News<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. In an opinion piece he pens about the decision to end the Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Fink argues, &#8220;But in cases of genuinely desperate need, the weight of the Christian moral tradition is clear &#8230; \u00a0these refugees have a right to seek safety wherever they can find it\u2014even if that means breaking our immigration laws. God\u2019s law trumps Trump\u2019s law, and American Christians who seek to follow Christ\u2019s command to \u201cwelcome the stranger\u201d may well find in the coming days that they have to decide for themselves which they will obey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Few Christians question the responsibility of governments to guard their borders against criminals and terrorists,&#8221; writes Furman Religion professor David Fink in The Greenville News. In an opinion piece he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":17345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-religion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}