This Is Our City

Like the Sonoran Desert in which it’s located, Phoenix, Arizona, hosts unlikely blooms among the hard-packed soil of deeply held emotions and beliefs about a people and place. Not far from the Mexico border, its 4.4 million people have grappled in recent years with the arrival of immigrant communities that many believe displace longstanding ones and drain resources. Thankfully, Christians in Phoenix are modeling winsome ways to respond to arriving communities with an on-the-ground hospitality that weeds out fear.