The New Pilgrims - By Joseph Castleberry

In an age of xenophobia where people assume that immigrants are causing the problems by not assimilating into American culture, Dr Joseph Castleberry author of The New Pilgrims: How Immigrants Are Renewing America’s Faith and Values brings a fresh new perspective. Dr Castleberry is the President of Northwest University and has been a missionary for 20 years in Latin America and has spent three years as university professor and pastor in El Salvador, Central America. Castleberry argues that the Christians immigrants in America can bring renewal and hope to America where religion is in decline as secularism and pluralism has taken the spotlight. He states that immigrants bring to our churches their unique experiences as minorities (both ethnically and religiously) and testimonies of faith from all over the world and they are the “new pilgrims” who are settling in the States and helping America rebuild its moral and spiritual foundations. This can be an exciting time in American history where these Christian immigrants can bring spiritual renewal, revival, and reformation and establish this nation once again as the “city on the hill.”