Latest from ESAFamily Separation Has Long Been an American Government Policy: Six Generations of Our Chinese American Family Know FirsthandAugust 22, 2019By Matthew Jeung and Russell Jeung We’ve been told that when the government separated my grand-uncle from his mother and sisters in 1941, he waited at a bus stop for his father to pick him up. What he seemed to have forgotten in his traumatized state, though, was that his…...Read more...Our Shared HumanityAugust 21, 2019By Jon Carlson This is the second installment in our six-week visual series on exploring what God’s love looks like when we live it out in our world. You can see the first installment here. Today, pray for an international enemy. Invite God to bring to mind a nation, ethnic…...Read more...Families Separated at the Border: Genesis 12 and Romans 13August 20, 2019Editor’s note: In light of the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the southern US border, we are reprinting these thoughts by Craig Keener on what the Bible has to say about immigration. We found this article to be as timely today as it was when it first ran over a year…...Read more...On Border Fences and the Fabric of Our NationAugust 19, 2019By Leslie Harrison I have always been a proponent for the rights of immigrants, based on the image I have of America according to the picture painted by our history. I am disappointed and ashamed that some Americans have such a short memory and refuse to look at the pages…...Read more...Wij Zijn Hier/We Are HereAugust 15, 2019By Katelyn Durst We are here and you’d like to forget it, have us more hidden then our black faces and tired, old eyes. Isn’t it enough to leave my own country as a teenager? Isn’t it enough to run on bare feet from my home that is at war…...Read more...Loving Our Neighbors and Our EnemiesAugust 14, 2019By Jon Carlson In a society marked by bitter division and painful injustice, how do we love our neighbors—and our enemies? For the next six weeks, join us every Wednesday for a visual series exploring what God’s love looks like when we live it out in our world. Jon Carlson…...Read more...The Immigrants’ CreedAugust 13, 2019A profession of the Christian faith through the experience of an immigrant. I believe in Almighty God, who guided the people in exile and in exodus, the God of Joseph in Egypt and Daniel in Babylon, the God of foreigners and immigrants. I believe in Jesus Christ, a displaced Galilean,…...Read more...Still HidingAugust 12, 2019By Christie Purifoy When President Trump announced the end of DACA, another battleground in his ongoing fight against immigrants and immigration, I observed my blonde, blue-eyed, non-Spanish-speaking child with alarm. His biological link to Mexico is well hidden, but will actions such as Trump’s make it easy for him to learn…...Read more...The Mothers at the Border Are Named JochevedAugust 8, 2019By Hannah Shanks Like many, I’ve been deeply grieved by the policy of family separation at the border. For weeks I’ve cast about looking for a handhold, for an idea of what to do, for who I am to be during a desperate time like this. Like many, I’ve come…...Read more...
