{"product_id":"convictions-of-the-heart-jim-corbett-and-the-sanctuary-movement-9780816510344","title":"Convictions of the Heart: Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe death of twenty-one Salvadoran refugees in the Arizona desert in 1980 made many Americans aware for the first time that people were strugglingand dyingto find political asylum in the United States. Tucsonan Jim Corbett first encountered the problem while attempting to help a hitchhiking refugee. What came of that act of altruism was a movement that spread across the country  challenged the federal government  and brought the refugee problem to national awareness.  Corbett first worked within the law to help refugees process applications for asylum  but the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service soon began a program of arrests; then he began to smuggle refugees from the Mexican border to the homes of citizens willing to provide shelter  making hundreds of trips over the next two years; finally he enlisted the support of the Tucson Ecumenical Council and persuaded John Fife  pastor of the Southside Presbyterian Church  to open that building as a refuge.  When legal action against Corbett and the others seemed imminent  Southside became  on March 24  1982  the first of two hundred churches in the country to declare itself a sanctuary. Convictions of the Heart takes readers inside the sanctuary movement to reveal its founders motives and underlying beliefs  and inside the courtroom to describe the governments efforts to stop it. Although the book addresses many points of view  its primary focus is on the philosophy of Jim Corbett. Rooted in the nonviolence of Gandhi  the Society of Friends  and Martin Luther King  Corbetts beliefs challenged individuals and communities of faith across the country to examine the strength of their commitment to the needs and rights of others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44933965414453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0816510342","price":334.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780816510344.jpg?v=1787675885","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/convictions-of-the-heart-jim-corbett-and-the-sanctuary-movement-9780816510344","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}