A year ago today, December 18, 2010, was a rough day for me. A week before Christmas—and four days before I planned to ask my girlfriend (now my wife) to marry me—I had plenty of reasons to be joyful, but on that Saturday, my heart was heavy with grief. After having been introduced repeatedly […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Robert Chao Romero We have all suffered a tragic loss this week in the untimely passing of “Dreamer” Joaquin Luna. Joaquin was an 18-year old senior at Juarez Lincoln High School in Mission, Texas. He had aspirations of going to college and becoming an engineer so that he could improve his […]Continue Reading →
This was originally posted on the Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service (LIRS) blog by Lauren Rhymer: http://www.lirsblog.org/2011/11/13/immigration-football-and-hot-wings/ I just learned last night David has been at Stewart Detention Center for a month now. I don’t know David well, but I know his brother Cesar very well. Cesar married into my family a couple […]Continue Reading →
Since the death of Apple cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs last Wednesday, people around the world have been reflecting on his legacy. Twitter and Facebook have been abuzz with paeans to iPods, iPhones, and iPads—and to the man without whom they would likely not exist. Radio and television reports have highlighted the influence that […]Continue Reading →
Guest blog by: Will Coley Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. – Philippians 4:8 With so much news and information bombarding us each day, it’s good to take time to reflect on […]Continue Reading →
Last Thursday and Friday, along with tens of thousands of Christian leaders at satellite sites across the country (the rest of the world gets to participate in the coming months), I attended the Willow Creek Association Global Leadership Summit. This was the second time that I’ve had the opportunity to attend the event, […]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 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 →
Guest Blog by Bernard Pastor Many of you prayed for me; others don’t know me. I was at the forefront of the immigration debate during the last month. On November 16, 2010, I was involved in a minor traffic accident. I was driving without a driver’s license, delivering Bibles. My father is a minister in […]Continue Reading →
In 1960, a few college students started a sit-in movement that swept the nation. In 2010, a few college students set out on a mission to get their rooms in the Inn. It wasn’t until 1964 that Civil Rights legislation finally made it through Congress and became the law of the land. But the change began in 1960. And it may be a few more years until just and fair immigration reform becomes the law of the land, but the change has already begun. The Movement has started.Continue Reading →
