This charcoal drawing from Filipino-American Artist Wayne Forte was specially commissioned by the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection for the 2017 Advent art exhibition, Family in Flight, looking at the journey of Mary, Joseph, and the Baby Jesus to Egypt in the context of the strident debate at the time over who was welcome in America. I asked Wayne to consider the question of what might have happened had the Holy Family arrived at their final destination in search of safety only to be stopped at the border. Here is his haunting response, even more relevant now as we face a possible mass deportation of "illegal aliens" than it was eight years ago! We see the iconic image of Joseph leading a donkey, bearing Mary and the Christ Child, silhouetted against a garishly-lit cyclone fence topped in barbed wire with a gun-toting border guard and attack dog in view. The meaning of the hodge-podge of signs in English and Spanish is all too clear: foreigners, go home. For scripture-quoting Christians who share such sentiments, here is an equally clear message on the issue from the Bible: "But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God (Leviticus 19:34, KJV)." (John Kohan)