Let us pray: Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of all of our hearts be acceptable to you, O Lord, our rock and our redeemer. AMEN. Two Sundays ago, my friend Kelli and I ate lunch in Chinatown, after visiting a local United Methodist Church. The blessing and the curse […]Continue Reading →
During my senior year of college at the University of South Carolina, I was involved with an emerging Latino ministry in Columbia, South Carolina. The ministry was run by a local church and we focused on ESL classes and childcare for those with children. These classes took place twice a week. […]Continue Reading →
Congress created the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994 in order to protect survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, and stalking. VAWA was reauthorized twice, each time with bipartisan support. The bill was then reintroduced in April 2012 by the United States Senate to include protections for immigrants, Native Americans, and […]Continue Reading →
The concept of self-deportation is one solution suggested by some politicians for dealing with undocumented immigrants in the United States. Their theory is that recent federal laws passed in the United States, such as the new E-verify program and Arizona-style state laws, will deter immigrants from continuing to live in the USA as there […]Continue Reading →
