When we lived in Atlanta, we frequented a restaurant in our neighborhood, eating there almost weekly. The food was good, but it really was the owners and staff that kept us coming back. We got to know...Read More
In chapel at Hartford Seminary on Monday, Dr. Benjamin Watts preached about Joseph and his dreams. Dr. Watts prodded us to think about how our dreams shape who we are and what we are trying to accompl...Read More
In class yesterday, a pastor told a story about how her husband, who is from Columbia, was unable to return to that country for his father’s funeral because Immigration told him that if he left ...Read More
There is a story about Abraham Lincoln that, whether or not it actually happened, I know is true. In the midst of the Civil War, a woman tried to encourage the president by assuring him that the North...Read More
I wonder how much evil has been done because a person with power is insecure. I know that almost everything I regret doing or saying in my life came from that broken place in my soul. You’d thin...Read More
The word “hero” most often summons male images. In part, that’s because we most often use “hero” for men and “heroine” for women, at least until recently. I&#...Read More
Immigration is very controversial, especially of late, but concerns about immigrants isn’t a new phenomenon. Ben Franklin feared that German immigrants would cause the colonies to forget their Engli...Read More
My sermon on Sunday was entitled “Rise Up for Immigrants.” I talked about how the “America First” philosophy stands in direct conflict with the Bible’s clear instructions...Read More
In his address to a joint session of Congress last week, the president scapegoated immigrants, painting them as murderers and drug pushers. He introduced a family whose son had been murdered by an und...Read More
Today’s Liberating Word was written by Rev. Claudia Aguilar Rubalcava, Associate Pastor for Justice & Witness at Virginia-Highland Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Sunday after church, I was talk...Read More
