OnScript Carmen Imes – Becoming God’s Family
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Feb 10, 2026 Carmen Imes, Associate Professor of Old Testament and author of the Bearing›Being›Becoming trilogy, brings biblical theology focused on community and presence. She discusses the church as corporate identity, migration and outsiders in Israel’s story, hospitality and protecting the vulnerable, and how texts from Genesis to Romans reshape family, worship, and communal formation.
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God's Emphatic Anger For The Vulnerable
- Exodus 22:22–24 uses three infinitive absolutes to emphatically condemn oppressing widows, orphans, and foreigners.
- God's personal anger is triggered by brutalizing the vulnerable, making protection non-negotiable.
Make Meals Central To Worship
- Provide food and shared meals as integral to worship because feasting includes Levites, widows, orphans, and foreigners.
- Use communal tithes and tables to welcome vulnerable people into the household of God.
Donuts And Sandwiches With Neighbors
- Carmen recounts a Biola student bringing breakfast to an unhoused neighbor and sitting to eat with him before church.
- She presents this simple hospitality as a tangible enactment of Levites' and vulnerable people's place at God's table.
