Editor’s note: With Robert Griffin III’s return to football generating a lot of buzz in the sports world, we’re revisiting this blog Ian Danley wrote about his experience visiting an Ethiopian restaurant in DC watching a football game last year. We had literally just paid for our food. It was some takeout place without […]Continue Reading →
I always identified Tuscaloosa with “Roll Tide,” not the “Clergy Criminalization Act.” That changed when I spent two weeks in late 2011 working with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. I traveled to Alabama to support the resident bishop of my denomination, who had joined three others in suing the […]Continue Reading →
Here in Illinois, where I live, we’ve gained a national infamy for corrupt politics. In fact, we’ve had four former governors imprisoned in as many decades. On Wednesday, while in Washington , D.C., I got to hear from two Illinois elected officials who have each also spent time in jail—but whom I believe […]Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of attending the National Immigration Forum’s Midwest conference, Forging a New Consensus on Immigrants and America. The goal of the conference was to promote the importance of immigration and the need for immigration reform. What made this conference unique was that there were […]Continue Reading →
When I was a sophomore at Bethel University, I was the top 1500-meter runner on my track team. Then, my junior year, a transfer student came, and she was really fast. She quickly took my place as the fastest miler on the team, winning multiple national championships in the process. I’ll admit to […]Continue Reading →
