Latest from ESAWij 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...Three to Flee: What Would You Take?August 7, 2019By Nikki Toyama-Szeto The bangles are gold, a deeply yellow gold. My preference would be for something a bit more subtle, less yellow…but these gold bangles are so yellow because they are pure, 24-karat gold. I was recently asked what I would take with me if I suddenly had to…...Read more...What They Left Behind: Yasmin’s StoryAugust 6, 2019A two-part interview with two sisters who recently immigrated to the United States By Josina Guess “I want my daughter to be somebody, to surpass me, to have a better future and a better life than mine.” Yasmin* sits up from the couch and rubs her belly. She had dozed…...Read more...What They Left Behind: Elena’s StoryAugust 5, 2019A two-part interview with two sisters who recently immigrated to the United States By Josina Guess “When your back is up against the wall, you do what you have to do to survive.” Elena* said this to me, in Spanish, after I spent over an hour listening to her and…...Read more...Am I a Racist Without Knowing It?August 1, 2019A review of Can “White” People Be Saved? Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission edited by Love L. Sechrest, Johnny Ramírez-Johnson, and Amos Yong / IVP Academic Missiological Engagements Series, 2018 By John Seel, Ph.D In the United States, Black men are far more likely to be hassled by law enforcement…...Read more...
