When I’m asked how I became interested in immigration, I sometimes mention that I grew up in a part of the country—Northeast Wisconsin—where there really aren’t many immigrants and that, as such, for lack of meaningful relationships, most of my opinions about the topic until a few years ago were formed by television and other […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by Bethany Anderson Osama bin Laden is dead. The world is celebrating? Let me start by saying that, as the wife of someone who lost his grandmother in the 9/11 attacks, I know full well the devastation this man has caused. He did many evil things and was responsible for the […]Continue Reading →
Ruben Vives, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, just won a Pulitzer Prize for an investigative report exposing corruption in the suburban Southern California town of Bell. City administrators there had been illegally swelling the city coffers so as to be able to pay themselves salaries of nearly a million dollars per year—until […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by Jacob Rodriguez Editor’s Note: Today’s entry is a song written by Jacob Rodriguez, who has written here in the past exegeting Deuteronomy 10. We thought the song, which references God’s special concern found throughout the Old Testament for the alien and others who are vulnerable, might help inspire other artists […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by Tony Pardo What do I breathe that others don’t? What does my heart pump that doesn’t run in the veins of others? What is my flesh made of that makes it illegal and almost inferior to the “citizens” of this country? Until this day, I have not discovered any biological explanations […]Continue Reading →
Like Christians the world over, I’ve been re-reading the gospel accounts of Jesus’ Last Supper, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection over the last week. In John 17, as Jesus prays for his disciples and their successors in the hours before he is arrested, he prays for our unity as his Church: …that all of them […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by Adam Gustine Recently I was watching The West Wing, and in this particular episode, President Bartlet’s Chief of Staff, Leo McGarry, was caught in the middle of a governmental inquiry into the assumed illegal dealings of one of his lifelong friends. McGarry, devoted to his friend because of the time they […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by Dustin White The afternoon air was thick with a suffocating humidity as we meandered through our tour of the Guatemalan cemetery. Admittedly, I had the assumption that the purpose of the tour was to view thousands of modest graves, a la Arlington National Cemetery, to get an impression of the civil […]Continue Reading →
