Editor’s note: This blog is the sixth part of a series, “Migration, Trade and Brutality: A Journey through Mexico and Central America”, written by David Schmidt regarding his travels in the summer of 2012. The goal of this series is to educate and inform readers about the reasons why immigrants come to our country […]Continue Reading →
Last week, I was invited to speak at Houghton College about immigration as part of a panel. Each panelist was invited to answer the question – “What are the most important factors which Christians should take into account when thinking about immigration reform?” What follows is an edited version of my […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This post is part 2 of a series written by Dr. M. Daniel Carroll Rodas on a trip to Tijuana ( Read Part 1 here.). Both posts originally appeared on Dr. M. Daniel Carroll Rodas’s blog on the Denver Seminary website. Permission was given by the author to repost. Among the U.S. […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Dr. M. Daniel Carroll Rodas’s blog on the Denver Seminary website. Permission was given by the author to repost. From July 5 to July 7, I was in Tijuana, Mexico. I flew into San Diego, and then took a bus and then the trolley to the Mexican border. I met Josh […]Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: This blog is the fifth part of a series, “Migration, Trade and Brutality: A Journey through Mexico and Central America”, written by David Schmidt regarding his travels in the summer of 2012. The goal of this series is to educate and inform readers about the reasons why immigrants come to our country […]Continue Reading →
Editors Note: This article first appeared on January 9, 2013 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 […]Continue Reading →
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 →
Somewhere in between the excruciating contractions that, after about twenty hours, led to my beautiful daughter, Zipporah, being born a few weeks ago, my wife began to curse Eve. According to the biblical account, after Adam and Eve sinned by disobeying God’s command, God punished Eve—and womankind after her—declaring that he would make “pains in […]Continue Reading →
Bill Hybels says that casting a vision is the process of inspiring people to move from “here” to “there.” We often think that to “sell” a vision, we need to paint a compelling picture of “there,” he says, when we really need to make the case for […]Continue Reading →
Let me start by saying how nice it is to write something that’s not contingent on a final grade for the first time in a very long while … Ahh, let’s all just let that soak in….
For the past four years I’ve been grinding […]Continue Reading →
