I wrote this essay several years ago, reflecting on Dick Lehr’s White Hot Hate and the narrowly thwarted 2016 bombing plot against a Somali immigrant community in Garden City, Kansas. Since then, public rhetoric about immigrants—and Somali communities in particular—has re-entered American political life with renewed force, sometimes echoing language and suspicions that once circulated largely at the margins.
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J. Todd Billings
J. Todd Billings is the Gordon H. Girod Research Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, MI.
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