Guest Blog by Brynn Schmidt I lead a team at our church that serves one of the poorest schools in our community and county, with a large population of children from undocumented families. I have seen firsthand the effects that poverty and fear within the undocumented community, have on the children, and it breaks […]Continue Reading →
I held a one week old baby boy tonight. He is perfectly beautiful and I was instantly in love. He’s just a little guy, weighing in at just over 6 pounds. He has all this hair and likes to pucker his big lips. His name is JJ and he is what many sadly refer to as an “anchor baby”.Continue Reading →
Our most popular guest post thus far here on the g92.org blog has been Sarah Eisele-Dyrli’s post on “The Connection Between Faith, Human Trafficking, and Immigration” a few weeks ago. We’re very glad that, in recent years, the Church in the United States has begun to recognize the tragic reality that modern-day slavery exists […]Continue Reading →
On June 18, 1954, the CIA dropped leaflets across Guatemala demanding the resignation of the nation’s democratically-elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, and then armed, organized, and trained a military opposition to successfully topple his presidency. Arbenz had supported an agrarian reform policy that was of concern to the United Fruit Company, the American company that owned […]Continue Reading →
As a Christian, a lawyer, and a former member of a Spanish-speaking church in Nashville, Tennessee, I am particularly sensitive to this Biblical message:
“Refuse to accept different standards of justice for the foreigners among you.”
Just as God had (and has) opinions about kings and their laws, he has opinions about democracies and their laws. America and its Christians do not have carte blanche in politics or in the halls of government. We must be sensitive to God’s direction when we legislate.Continue Reading →
A key biblical principal is that God has established the institution of government to maintain social order (Romans 13:1-7). How is the follower of Jesus to respond, however, when government knowingly violates the legal guidelines it has created for itself in order to guarantee this social order? This is one of the central issues involved in the immigration debate in America—though not in the way that many Christians typically frame the issue.Continue Reading →
This is the second part of a two-part blog post. If you haven’t already, read Part I. As I’ve had more time to study Romans 13, reflect on it, and be sharpened by the views of others, I’ve come up with a few thoughts, which I’ll mention briefly here, that I wish […]Continue Reading →
Walt Disney conceived of his namesake theme park, Disneyland, as a place that he could “keep developing, keep plussing and adding to,” an idea that appealed to him in part because of the frustration of making films, which once they are “in the can,” can no longer be changed. Books, for better or worse, […]Continue Reading →
As someone who has been actively advocating both for better environmental stewardship and better immigration policies, I was taken aback by this statement summarizing the position of key anti-immigration organizations. These groups have recently been arguing that immigrants are bad for the environment and so, in the interest of sustainability, the U.S. should drastically decrease the number of immigrants allowed into the United States each year.Continue Reading →
