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January 2019

January 08, 2019

Theology That Builds Walls

Donald Trump would not be fixated on building a wall on the southern border of...

October 2018

October 01, 2018

The World of the Crucified vs. The World of the #Blessed

Most of the people who read this blog post live in what we could call...

June 2018

June 15, 2018

Jeff Sessions and Law and Order Christianity

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a United Methodist layperson. Somewhere along the way in his...

June 01, 2018

Mommy-Shaming Ivanka Trump Doesn’t Make Immigrants Safe

Ivanka Trump posted this photo with her son on Twitter because she's a mom and...

September 2017

September 06, 2017

#DACA and the Failure of Atonement in the American Church

Once again, I feel demoralized by the cynicism and intransigence in our nation's immigration policy.

February 2017

February 17, 2017

The visa that would fix our immigration system

Fifteen years ago, I worked for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), a mostly Latino immigrant...

February 02, 2017

A visit to the ICE office

This week, I got to do church in a way that I hadn't experienced before. After...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

Jesus doesn’t do walls (Ephesians 2:14)

If you want to get to the core ethos of true Christianity, Ephesians 2:14 is...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

What I would have to see from John Kasich to support him

Let’s say the unthinkable happens this July in Cleveland at the Republican National Convention and...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

If you need for undocumented immigrants to be punished, then you don’t believe in Jesus’ cross

We have a broken immigration system. And it's broken in a way that is incredibly...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

We are all illegal aliens in the kingdom of God

[I posted this on Red Letter Christians two years ago but the Senate's passage yesterday...

April 2013

April 21, 2013

Don’t stop immigration reform over the Boston bombing!

I knew it was coming. The lunatics in the outrage industrial complex are out in...

February 2013

February 09, 2013

Illegal immigrant hunting permit

Words are inadequate to respond to this image that has been circulating the internet. I'll...

February 08, 2013

Jesus inside the beltway: Glocalization and relationship-rooted causes

On the last day of our GBCS young clergy leadership forum, we learned the term...

October 2012

October 04, 2012

What it all boils down to for me

I didn't watch the presidential debate even though I tweeted #JesusIsMyCandidate until twitter kicked me...

June 2012

June 15, 2012

Immigration: a litmus test for the American evangelical gospel

I'm not sure I could have ever imagined congratulating Southern Baptist fundamentalist leader Richard Land...

June 28, 2011

Love: One Georgia Mayor’s Response to Immigrants

Came across a story on CNN about Paul Bridges, the "conservative Republican" mayor of Uvalda,...