This is a paper delivered by Ekklesia associate Vaughan Jones to the inaugural meeting of the Westminster Forum, looking at the ethics of migration, and whether immigration controls are in fact practical, expedient, realistic, necessary or moral. If there is a crisis, whose is it? Should be pursuing a long term policy of the opening up of our borders? The intimate historic dependence of Christianity on people movements, and the prophetic biblical call for justice toward sojourners and strangers is basic to the author's perspective. Vaughan Jones is director of Praxis, a multi-agency initiative working with displaced people in London. He is a United Reformed Church minister.

The aim of this response to the new CTBI report on the ethics of affluence, offered by the theological think tank Ekklesia, is to clarify what it says and what it means; to reflect on its approach and how it justifies it; and then to look at how it makes use of theology in articulating principles for engaging market economics. We argue that while the document contains useful analysis and ideas, it is theologically weak in ways that may relate to other inadequacies. But we welcome it as a contribution to an ongoing and important discussion.