Thanksgiving is really a holiday about religious refugees overcoming the difficulty of settling in a new country. This story is very appropiate for this holiday and shows the struggles that new refugees go through and also the compassion shown by one family who left a comfortable life to help them adapt to a new life. I'm dissapointed that Washington Post politicized the headline but that said this last campaign fear of refugees was used and even now many in Trump's transition are still talking about reducing or banning bringing in new refugees. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-refugees-a-pastor-makes-his-life-among-them/ As Donald Trump railed against refugees, a pastor made his life among them Comfortable in his Silver Spring home, the Rev. Eric So could not stop thinking about the plight of refugees — people forced to uproot their families, to leave their homes, to start anew in a strange and perhaps hostile place. The pastor felt so moved that he made an unusual decision: He would uproot his own family. He would leave his own home. And he would start anew, right alongside the refugees moving into their first apartments in the United States. So would not just be a pastor to these refugee families. He would be a neighbor. Families from Syria live in the Parkview Gardens Apartments in Prince George’s County. As do families from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sri Lanka, Burma and Congo. And for the past two years, so do Eric So, Lisa So, 2-year-old Xavier and 10-month-old Felix. “I think probably the most compelling reason we chose to move into the neighborhood was really the story of Jesus,” Eric So said. “From the Scriptures, I see God sending his son, Jesus, into the world, so that he would dwell among the people.” Dwelling among the people, for the Sos, has meant bedbugs and roach scares, concerns about leaking pipes and higher crime rates and about whether they are doing the right thing in putting their children in an inferior school district. As the country has turned away from refugees — electing a president who talked about stopping accepting any refugees from Syria — the Sos have turned toward them with a radical act of self-sacrifice. more at link.
