Editor’s note: This is the 4th part of a 5 part series written by Sarah Quezada from her blog A Life With Subtitles. In this series Sarah is chronicling her relationship with and eventual marriage to her husband Billy, who came to the U.S. as an immigrant from Guatemala. By hearing their story, we […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This is the 3rd part of a 5 part series written by Sarah Quezada from her blog A Life With Subtitles. In this series Sarah is chronicling her relationship with and eventual marriage to her husband Billy, who came to the U.S. as an immigrant from Guatemala. By hearing their story, we […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This is the 2nd part of a 5 part series written by Sarah Quezada from her blog A Life With Subtitles. In this series Sarah is chronicling her relationship with and eventual marriage to her husband Billy, who came to the U.S. as an immigrant from Guatemala. By hearing their story, we hope […]Continue Reading →
I am very happily ceding my normal blog space here at G92.org today to my good friend, Sarah Quezada. Sarah works with Mission Year—a fantastic organization providing year-long urban ministry placements for young adults—and has served in a leadership cohort with me through the Christian Community Development Association. Over the next five […]Continue Reading →
Bishop Will Willimon is back to his old stomping grounds at Duke Divinity School after eight years of serving in the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church. Formerly, he worked as a Duke Divinity professor and then Dean of the Chapel at Duke University. During his time in North Alabama, the […]Continue Reading →
In Kollen Park, on the shore of Lake Macatawa in Holland, Michigan, stands a bronze statue. “The Immigrants” statue is a gift from the people of Drenthe, in the Netherlands. A group of immigrants journeyed in the spring of 1847 from Rotterdam to New York City’s Ellis Island. The Atlantic passage took […]Continue Reading →
There are a lot of reasons why I believe that immigrants are a blessing to local churches in the United States, but one of the most profound is this: immigrants can help us to better understand what it means to be a Christian. You see, my friend Daniel Carroll of Denver Seminary […]Continue Reading →
The blog posts from earlier this week have given hope for the future of the immigration system in America. Comprehensive immigration reform seems to be coming because support of it proves to be good policy and good politics and because Evangelicals are becoming more concerned about this issue. In light of this perceived […]Continue Reading →
I started working in Washington, DC, 6 years ago, and I was tasked with the job of not only bringing World Relief’s position in support of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) to members of Congress but also educating the wider evangelical community on why immigration reform was needed in the first place. As the […]Continue Reading →
I’m going to make a prediction that I don’t think is mere wishful thinking: 2013 will be the year that immigration reform finally passes. I (personally) and the organization for which I work (World Relief) have been advocating for significant reforms to our nation’s immigration laws since at least 2006, when President […]Continue Reading →
