Guest Blog by: Tony Choi If I could, I would drive to my church. The great state of New Jersey does not issue driver’s licenses to undocumented residents (yet), so I usually rely on my pastor for a ride to church. As Define American’s Jose Antonio Vargas puts it, he is a […]Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago, at The Justice Conference in Portland, I saw an early screening of Blue Like Jazz, the new film adaptation of Donald Miller’s best-selling autobiographical book, which opened across the country last weekend. The film follows Don from the small Texas town where he is steeped in an […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Heidi Moll Schoedel “Why don’t you cut them down?” That was the response of my Eritrean friend when she first arrived in the United States, in the middle of a harsh winter. Everywhere she looked, she saw dead trees. They clustered around houses, lined streets and filled yards. “Why do […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Christopher D. Cook This blog was originally posted on Alternet.org. It is reprinted with permission from the author. The original post can be found here. Cesar Chavez, the champion of farmworkers’ rights who gets his annual day of state recognition Saturday, March 31, must be rolling in his grave. It’s […]Continue Reading →
Last Friday, probably around the time I was at one of my church’s Good Friday services, thirty-eight individuals were sworn in as naturalized U.S. citizens at a ceremony in Portland, Maine. Immigrants from all over the world—Argentina, India, Iraq, Somalia and likely several other countries—pledged their allegiance to their adopted country. In an […]Continue Reading →
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 →
The other day I was re-reading the stories of Jesus miraculously feeding the 5,000 in Mark 6 and then feeding 4,000 in Mark 8. Immediately after the second incident, as they travel by boat to their next destination, Jesus tries to make a point to the disciples and uses yeast as a metaphor. Missing […]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 →
