Latest from ESAStill HidingSeptember 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...A Seat at the TableSeptember 11, 2019By Jon Carlson This is the fifth installment in our six-week visual series on exploring what God's love looks like when we live it out in our world. If you're just joining us, you can begin with the first installment here. Today, try to reach out to someone who disagrees…...Read more...Stranded by the Hunger DisasterSeptember 10, 2019The calling of the faithful is clear: feed the hungry and you will live. By Jeremy K. Everett For the past twenty years, I have traveled the United States and other parts of the world observing, researching, and addressing hunger and poverty. Much of what I have learned about addressing…...Read more...Against the Bad Place: A Review of David Bentley Hart's "That All Shall Be Saved"September 9, 2019What we believe about life after death shapes our actions, priorities, and choices in the here and now. By Jon Carlson "You're OK, Eleanor. You're in the Good Place," the celestial being Michael (Ted Danson) gently intones to Eleanor (Kristen Bell) in the opening scene of NBC's sitcom The Good…...Read more...Skipping the News?September 4, 2019By Jon Carlson This is the fourth installment in our six-week visual series on exploring what God's love looks like when we live it out in our world. If you're just joining us, you can begin with the first installment here. Today, try to avoid devoting attention to the news…...Read more...The Greatest EvilAugust 29, 2019The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted,…...Read more...What If We Don't Agree?August 28, 2019By Jon Carlson This is the third installment in our six-week visual series on exploring what God's love looks like when we live it out in our world. If you're just joining us, you can begin with the first installment here. Today, ask God to bring to mind a journalist,…...Read more...The Immigration Debate: Can the Bible Help?August 27, 2019Editor's note: In light of the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the southern US border, we are reprinting these thoughts 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. We wish that wasn't so. By…...Read more...We Won't Let You Go Home, but You Can't Stay HereAugust 26, 2019By Jon Carlson It started the way these things often do—a routine announcement from the pilot that they had a warning light in the cockpit. We couldn't take off yet. So we sat on the tarmac in Quito, surrounded by the Andes mountains, and we waited. Next came the announcement…...Read more...
