Wednesday, February 7 | 5:30 pm | with Kathe Drake
America for Americans by Erika Lee

In America for Americans we enter the continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia (fear of the stranger) in the United States and its devastating impact. The United States is known as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of xenophobia (fear of the stranger) that fears difference. In this very readable book, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the present. Forcing us to confront this history, America for Americans explains how xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens America. As people of faith, we follow a God "who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing" (Deut. 10:18). This book helps us explore what that means.