7 Things You Can Do to Help

On June 16, 2013 By
Immigration reform policies seem to be moving forward in Congress, and a number of folks have asked me recently: so what can I do?  I thought I’d briefly highlight seven ways that pretty much anyone can help: 1)     Pray.  We’re serious about this: I want to challenge you to pray daily.  Pray more than daily—that […]Continue Reading →

Immigration Reform: Can the Bible Help Us?

On June 14, 2013 By

As discussions in Congress about immigration reform heat up, Christians should step back and ask how the Bible might inform their own view on immigration. Could the Bible have something to contribute to the national debate about changing immigration law?

Where do we begin the […]Continue Reading →

An Immigrant’s Heart

On June 12, 2013 By

A True Life Story

I know what it’s like to want to do the right thing, but you can’t.  When you’re hanging onto faith like a life jacket and it’s a battle to not sink into depression and hopelessness. It’s easy for people who are not affected by this tough Immigration issue to judge […]Continue Reading →

Parkside Displacement

On June 10, 2013 By
A couple weeks ago, there was a letter in our mailbox addressed to “Resident.”  I nearly tossed it into the garbage: usually important mail comes from people who know my name.  I opened the letter, though, and did my best to decipher the legalese language as I climbed the stairs to my apartment.  One […]Continue Reading →

The Great Commission and Immigration

On June 7, 2013 By

Our church has been going through a series of messages on discipleship. Two weeks ago, I was in the Great Commission text (Matthew 28:16-20) and this week I was in the ascension text in Acts 1:6-11. These both are part of Jesus’ final words to his disciples before he returned […]Continue Reading →

People Are Strange

On June 5, 2013 By
Originally posted on patheos.com You may know the song “People Are Strange” by The Doors that sings of people being strange and looking ugly when you are a stranger and alone. How people view you and me often shapes our views of them. Do you ever encounter people who view […]Continue Reading →

What’s Your Immigration IQ?

On June 3, 2013 By
My brilliant, beautiful and currently extremely pregnant wife, Diana, is a high school Spanish teacher.  Recently, she showed some of her students a film about Spanish-speaking immigrants in the United States.  To get her students thinking, she asked me to design a twenty-question true-false quiz that her students could take as a conversation starter.   […]Continue Reading →

Why Piecemeal Immigration Reform Won’t Work

On May 27, 2013 By
Last week, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed a broad immigration reform bill in a strongly bipartisan 13-5 vote.  As the bill moves to the full Senate, where it seems likely to have the votes necessary to pass, a bipartisan group in the House of Representatives is reportedly negotiating their own immigration reform […]Continue Reading →

Training Volunteers for Immigration Detention Programs

On May 24, 2013 By

Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) — the national immigration detention visitation network — believes that ending the isolation of people in immigration detention starts with being a good listener. CIVIC teamed up with Jesuit Refugee Service/USA (JRS/USA), a longstanding partner of the U.S. visitation […]Continue Reading →

Why We Can’t Stay Here

On May 20, 2013 By

Bill Hybels says that casting a vision is the process of inspiring people to move from “here” to “there.”  We often think that to “sell” a vision, we need to paint a compelling picture of “there,” he says, when we really need to make the case for […]Continue Reading →

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