Check out this post from Lisa K. Deam, who is writing a book on the spirituality of pilgrimage. She observes that Jean Gerson, reflecting on the flight into Egypt by Joseph, Mary, and the child Jesus, makes the bold statement that God is a fugitive and a foreigner (“Deus est fugitivus et advena”). In an era in which so many American Evangelicals are joining the anti-immigrant bandwagon, it’s an important reminder that Jesus wants us to identify with those who are powerless and not with the privileged and powerful, and it is a call to “see Jesus in our fugitive neighbors.”
