Guest Blog by: Jake Kampe As I celebrated Holy Week, I found myself pondering the same things I seem to do each year. There is almost a dark “real time” anticipation of the events that transpired over 2000 years ago. I meditate and imagine what the week must have been like. I imagine the […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Lisa Van Engen Isabel Wilkerson was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. She is also the author of the expansive work The Warmth of Other Suns. Her books spans the years of 1915-1970, when six million people set out on the Great Migration. She followed the […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Don Balla Christians in Nazi Germany, when they disobeyed laws ordering them to impose sanctions on Jews, had no constitutional protection. Disobedience meant prison or death. We Christians in the United States are more fortunate. When we resist laws ordering us to impose sanctions on undocumented immigrants, our Constitution supports us. […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Jake Kampe Conner is a typical mischievous 3 year old that loves to play games. His favorite game is called “The Candy Game”. His parents always leave a big bowl of candy on the living room coffee table for the family and guests to enjoy. One day, Conner began sneaking up […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Tim Hoiland This is the second in a two-part series based on Tim’s conversation with Ricardo. Part one was featured on our blog Wednesday. Ricardo, 20, is an undocumented college student living in Phoenix. He recently spoke with advocacy journalist Tim Høiland about his journey from Mexico to the […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Tim Hoiland This is the first in a two-part series based on Tim’s conversation with Ricardo. Stay tuned for part two coming up this Friday. Ricardo, 20, is an undocumented college student living in Phoenix. He recently spoke with advocacy journalist Tim Høiland ( http://www.tjhoiland.com ) about his journey from […]Continue Reading →
Fields of Denial Guest Blog by Andrew Wainer This blog was first posted on the Bread for the World website. The original post can be found here. About every five years the Farm Bill addresses a broad set of food and agricultural policy issues . Commodity price supports, farm credit, trade, […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Jenny Yang This blog was first posted on the World Relief Responds website. The original post can be found here. For years, I heard that thousands of refugees from Chin State in Burma were fleeing into Mizoram State, India to escape persecution at the hands of the Burmese military regime. […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Federico Gutierrez This blog was first posted on Federico’s website which can be found here. Do I praise God because I am fearfully and wonderfully made? To put it shortly, maybe. During this Lenten season I have been fasting from a meal a day, using that time to pray for […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: R. Hugh Margesson Hector Zacara did not understand why there was no market for the beans he grew, beans that his family had grown in Tapachula, Mexico for decades. He heard about U.S. grown beans being cheaper than the ones he grew. He heard about NAFTA but did not know what […]Continue Reading →
