Editor’s note: With Robert Griffin III’s return to football generating a lot of buzz in the sports world, we’re revisiting this blog Ian Danley wrote about his experience visiting an Ethiopian restaurant in DC watching a football game last year. We had literally just paid for our food. It was some takeout place without […]Continue Reading →
The growing support for immigration reform among evangelical Christians has been getting a lot of traction in the media these last few months. This new awareness of the presence of evangelicals is good on a couple of fronts. On the one hand, it suggests that religion still matters in this country, at least to some […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: As the Willow Creek Association’s 2013 Global Leadership Summit just concluded last weekend, we are running one of Matthew Soerens’ previous blogs in which he reflected on the 2011 Global Leadership Summit. Last Thursday and Friday, along with tens of thousands of Christian leaders at satellite sites across the country (the rest […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s Note: Blog first appeared at http://bronlea.wordpress.com/. Permission was given by the author to repost. This card with my name and fingerprint on it, also records my official Alien Number, assigned to me by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service. We are now at the end of our ninth year of […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared as a Facebook note penned a few days after the Zimmerman verdict was rendered. To my beloved brothers Timothy and Stephen: I’m sorry that you still live in a society where you are deemed “suspicious” simply due to the color of your skin, your style […]Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a challenging situation in the neighborhood in which I live, the Parkside Apartments. My wife and I—and each of our neighbors, most of whom are refugees or other immigrants—received a letter notifying us that the local government intended to include our apartment complex in a redevelopment zone, […]Continue Reading →
It can be frustrating, at times, to be a faithful Christian in the public square. Personally, two issues dominate my activism: abortion and immigration. While they are separate and complex issues, I believe they stem from the same root belief: every person born into the world was created in the image […]Continue Reading →
Editors Note: This Blog first appeared on, August 10, 2012 Outside of my home country of South Korea, there is no other country except the United States where people can assume that I am “one of them.” This is because there are Americans that look like me, and also perhaps because of this […]Continue Reading →
The big international news last week—bigger even than the #Pray4Reform event in Washington, D.C. last Wednesday, as newsworthy as that was—was the birth of Great Britain’s royal baby. Prince William and Princess Kate became parents last Monday to a little baby boy eventually named George Alexander Louis. In anticipation of the birth, as […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on January 25, 2012 Guest Blog by: Yaphet Tedla After about a month and half into a semester spent in Jerusalem, my friends and I found ourselves sitting in the cafeteria of our school and reminiscing of things we missed about America. The school was built of […]Continue Reading →
