Social injustice is never far away from any of us. How should we confront injustices that are often culturally and historically pervasive? Paul took a radical approach against slavery in his letter to Philemon.

Does the Bible promote slavery? Why is it that we do not read of the condemnation of slavery in the Bible? This article engages with these questions by pointing to ten things you need to know about slavery in the Bible.

This article considers questions such as what is the Bible's attitude to foreigners, to immigrants, and refugees, and what does the gospel have to say on the subject. Biblical law is remarkably generous towards strangers. The Scriptures speak of welcoming the stranger, in full knowledge of the risks, because of God's love for all.

The paper argues that the silence of the New Testament on the slavery question can be understood by noting the essentially worthwhile character of slavery during this period. Modern thinking about slavery has too often been influenced by superimposing the viciousness, perpetual bondage, and race hatred of slavery in past centuries on conditions in the Roman world.