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 →
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 →
Guest Blog by Joshua Snyder Editor’s Note: Most of our guest bloggers write from the context of the United States, where many churches are wrestling with how to respond to a situation where 10.8 million immigrants are living without legal status. But there are undocumented immigrants in many other countries as well: our guest […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by Dawnielle Miller She approached me at the end of a service at church wanting to know if she could have a private meeting with me. We went downstairs and she asked me if I could help with her son’s asylum court case. This was new territory for me! I knew nothing about […]Continue Reading →
“Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalized [sic] by their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds by punching their way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned. Once outside, they dashed for freedom” (The Independent, 2007).Continue Reading →
