Author

Isaac Villegas

Ordained minister and author

The Rev. Isaac S. Villegas is an ordained Mennonite minister. He has served as president of the North Carolina Council of Churches and as a member of the denominational board of the Mennonite Church USA. He is the author of “Migrant God: A Christian Vision for Immigrant Justice”(Eerdmans, 2025), and his work appears regularly in The Christian Century.

Villegas has a B.A. from Westmont College and an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School.

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