Love Thy Stranger As Thyself: Interesting Op-Ed from the NYTimes on...
There’s a pretty interesting op-ed in the New York Times by Molly Worthen from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She’s writing on three subjects I care about: immigration, evangelicalism,...
View ArticleImmigration and the Health of a Nation
I was reading some Eugene Peterson this week, and ran upon a section in which he talked about how we assess the health of a nation. He said, “We measure the health of our nation and the success of our...
View ArticleWho Would Jesus Deport?: For the Christian, Immigration Isn’t About Politics...
I am raising my voice in opposition to the prospect of the United States Government rounding up and deporting millions of our neighbors because they do not have legal immigration status. I’m doing so...
View ArticleDACA Is Literally the Least We Can Do: Here’s Why Ending It Is Stupid
Meet Larissa Martinez. She was the 2016 valedictorian of McKinney Boyd High School, and is on full scholarship to Yale. She is bright, hardworking, and is a credit to her family and community. She is...
View ArticleWednesday Wisdom: No Truth? No Justice? No Peace.
Peace is not pragmatic. It’s not a strategy or procedure put into effect in order to engineer a desired outcome. Peace is the outcome. I’m slow-reading Stanley Hauerwas’ book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
View ArticleMonday Morning Confessional: Immigration Abdication
I confess that the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) is starting a denaturalization task force to revoke citizenship of naturalized citizens they find objectionably brown, then...
View ArticleImmigration Confrontation: When Jesus Doesn’t Have Your Back
The central confession of the Christian faith is: Jesus is Lord. We don’t really use the language of “lords” anymore, but the phrase just means the Christian is supposed to live in obedience to Christ,...
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