Over the course of three days this month, the crisis around the separation of children from their families illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border reached a fever pitch, and Pres. Donald Trump issued a new executive order to keep families together. It was a big reversal, and it followed intense public outcry, notably from a broad coalition of people of faith. In a country where the number of people unaffiliated with religious traditions is rising, what role did America’s faith communities have in bringing us to this point?

Jack Jenkins, national reporter with Religion News Service
Emma Green, writer at The Atlantic magazine
Jim Wallis, president and founder of Sojourners movement and magazine