Alan Cross

Alan Cross is a Southern Baptist minister. He also serves as a consultant for the Evangelical Immigration Table in the Southeastern US and is the author of When Heaven and Earth Collide: Racism, Southern Evangelicals, and the Better Way of Jesus (NewSouth Books, 2014).

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Who Gets to Come through the Golden Door: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, the Church, and the Soul of America

If American evangelicals care about persecuted Christians and other persecuted religious minorities around the world, then we should care about refugee resettlement for victims of violence, war, and persecution.

Migration, Security, and the Witness of the Church
Migration, Security, and the Witness of the Church

Christians in the midst of the reality of global migration have both a responsibility and an opportunity.

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