Guest Blog by: Sarah Jackson After a long, exhausting day of traveling I collapsed into a little heap on the dirty Phoenix airport floor. I just spent three weeks traveling and was ready to be home. My return flight was delayed until the following day. My feet ached, the muscles in my body were sore […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Beth Orchard Albany Park, Chicago is approximately 15 miles north of the Chicago Loop. Germans and Swedes were among the first immigrants to the area followed by Jews and Asian and Latin American immigrants predominantly from Korea, the Philippines and Guatemala. Seated at the heart of this diverse community is […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Robert Chao Romero, J.D., Ph.D. I wouldn’t normally think to write a blog about bullying, but this time it’s personal. Last week a beautiful mixed-race Asian-Latino boy named Teddy Molina committed suicide in Corpus Christi, Texas because of bullying. I take it really personal because I am also Asian-Latino and I […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Tony Choi If I could, I would drive to my church. The great state of New Jersey does not issue driver’s licenses to undocumented residents (yet), so I usually rely on my pastor for a ride to church. As Define American’s Jose Antonio Vargas puts it, he is a […]Continue Reading →
Last Friday, probably around the time I was at one of my church’s Good Friday services, thirty-eight individuals were sworn in as naturalized U.S. citizens at a ceremony in Portland, Maine. Immigrants from all over the world—Argentina, India, Iraq, Somalia and likely several other countries—pledged their allegiance to their adopted country. In an […]Continue Reading →
The other day I was re-reading the stories of Jesus miraculously feeding the 5,000 in Mark 6 and then feeding 4,000 in Mark 8. Immediately after the second incident, as they travel by boat to their next destination, Jesus tries to make a point to the disciples and uses yeast as a metaphor. Missing […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Tim Hoiland This is the first in a two-part series based on Tim’s conversation with Ricardo. Stay tuned for part two coming up this Friday. Ricardo, 20, is an undocumented college student living in Phoenix. He recently spoke with advocacy journalist Tim Høiland ( http://www.tjhoiland.com ) about his journey from […]Continue Reading →
Last week, while teaching on immigration for a group of pastors in Jacksonville, Florida, my colleague at World Relief Jacksonville, Elaine, made an interesting observation. After hearing me talk through a few of the many references to immigrants and immigration in the Bible, Elaine reflected that, in sixty years of church, she could not […]Continue Reading →
Fields of Denial Guest Blog by Andrew Wainer This blog was first posted on the Bread for the World website. The original post can be found here. About every five years the Farm Bill addresses a broad set of food and agricultural policy issues . Commodity price supports, farm credit, trade, […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Federico Gutierrez This blog was first posted on Federico’s website which can be found here. Do I praise God because I am fearfully and wonderfully made? To put it shortly, maybe. During this Lenten season I have been fasting from a meal a day, using that time to pray for […]Continue Reading →
