Ever since I was young, I have always had an interest in the struggle for human rights. Whether it was a story about Harriet Tubman, known by those she rescued as “Moses”, or a story about Anne Frank living in secret in the Nazi-occupied Germany, I have always been drawn to learning more about […]Continue Reading →
Last Wednesday morning, on the way to a meeting, my car stopped accelerating. Then the engine died altogether. I was able to direct the car into the central turn-lane of Roosevelt Road, the major thoroughfare on which I was driving, but I was stuck. My gasoline gauge had been near empty for several days, […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This is the 5th 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 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 →
