The central thesis of pastor David Platt’s bestselling Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream (Multnomah, 2010) is that, for many American Christians, our faith has become a comfortable, culturally-co-opted shadow of the costly, seemingly crazy commitment to which Scripture calls us. Platt, a well-known mega-church pastor in Birmingham, […]Continue Reading →
Blog by: Juliana Martinez Last Wednesday, the New York Times published a powerful narrative written by Jose Antonio Vargas. He is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and recently “came out” as an undocumented immigrant. (take a moment and read the article if you haven’t already. It’s worth it). In light of his “coming out” as undocumented, […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Russell Moore The Christian response to immigrant communities in the United States cannot be “You kids get off of my lawn” in Spanish. While evangelicals, like other Americans, might disagree on the political specifics of achieving a just and compassionate immigration policy, our rhetoric must be informed by more than politics, but […]Continue Reading →
Last Saturday, I committed myself before God, my church community, and my family and friends to take Diana Wood as my wife, “for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death.” In fact, by the time that this blog […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Joel Perez Introduction: Many of us are familiar with the national political debate surrounding immigration reform. These debates spill over into many of the communities in which our institutions reside. In addition, this issue is salient for us in private Christian colleges, because some of our institutions have decided to admit […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by David Swanson Does anyone keep the Sabbath anymore? I’ve come to the conclusion that the fourth commandment the most ignored of the Ten Commandments. If we did keep Sabbath, I wonder how our thoughts about our undocumented neighbors might change. The Old Testament books of Exodus and Deuteronomy each contain […]Continue Reading →
Alabama made headlines last week by becoming the most recent state to pass a tough immigration law that supporters hope will drive undocumented immigrants out of the state. The bill, which one of sponsors called “an Arizona bill with an Alabama twist,” actually goes well beyond the scope of the controversial SB 1070 […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s Note: Read “No More Strangers Part I” here Guest Blog by David Park Six days in jail. $11,300 and counting to post bond and retain an immigration lawyer. Hours upon hours of waiting. Dozens of phone calls with no straight answers. Miles of driving around the city and paying collectively about $100 […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by David Park In my home state of Georgia last week, the governor signed House Bill 87 or the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011, and I have such mixed emotions about it. My emotions got a little more complicated yesterday. Every few weeks, a Brazilian couple comes over to […]Continue Reading →
A story in the New York Times late last week highlighted an interesting phenomenon: in Arizona, where more than 70,000 acres of national forest have been burned by a wildfire, many are certain that undocumented immigrants are to blame. In fact, the rumor has spread as quickly as the wildfire that an […]Continue Reading →
