This episode, originally posted on November 10, 2022, features a conversation with Jose Humphreys and Karen González to talk
about Karen's new book, "Beyond Welcome".
Karen is a speaker, writer, storyteller, and immigrant advocate, who herself immigrated from Guatemala as a child. Karen is a former public school teacher and attended Fuller Theological Seminary, where she studied theology and missiology. For the last 15 years, she has been a non-profit professional. She wrote a book about her own immigration story and some of the immigrants found in the Bible: The God Who Sees: Immigrants, The Bible, and the Journey to Belong (Herald Press, May 2019). Karen’s second book is Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in our Christian Response to Immigration. She also has bylines in Sojourners, Christianity Today, The Christian Century, and others. Karen is the co-host of the Latina-focused podcast Cafe with Comadres. She lives in Baltimore, MD with her cat Oscar.
José Humphreys is a native New Yorker, social worker, consultant and Lead Collaborator at Mosaic Collaborative, LLC. He has worked in this capacity with nonprofits and churches for over 18 years, organizing neighborhood groups and faith leaders around justice issues.Together with his wife, Mayra, and others, José began Metro Hope Covenant Church, a multi-ethnic church In Harlem, and he
is the author of Seeing Jesus in East Harlem: What Happens when the Church Shows up and Stays Put.
You can find Karen's book here:
And Jose's book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jos%C3%A9-Humphreys/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJos%C3%A9+Humphreys
