Suzannah Rowntree’s Reviews > Healer of the Nations: Biblical Principles for International Relations > Status Update

"Christians should not join pressure groups to restrict international trade through tariffs... Christians should not become advocates of closed borders to those who are coming here to work. Obviously, revolutionaries may accompany the immigrants, but trained revolutionaries are going to get into a free nation, anyway. The borders are not that tight, and they cannot be made that tight. We are not Communist nations."

I was so busy having my mind blown by the "internationalism is good actually" message the first time I read this book that the "church ecumenism is also good actually" chapter kind of blew right past me. is it consistent with the often belittling way North spends most of the book talking about Christians he doesn't agree with? not quite lol. BUT. a unity-in-diversity ecumenism is such a blessed and happy thing.

"What happens...is that diplomats minimise the ideological statements of totalitarian leaders. They say that such statements are mere rhetoric. They begin a search for the dictator's "real" demands." ahahaha so true actually.

"Jesus spoke of a nation that would inherit the kingdom of God. Was he speaking of a particular nation-state? Or was he speaking of the totality of those throughout history who progress faith in Jesus Christ...the Church International? Obviously, it was the latter." this book on international relations is an oldie and a bit polemic but this bit at least slaps