ESA's Blog: Love Justice, Do Mercy
Still Hiding
By 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...
A Seat at the Table
By 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...
Stranded by the Hunger Disaster
The 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...
Against the Bad Place: A Review of David Bentley Hart's "That All Shall Be Saved"
What 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...
Skipping the News?
By 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...
The Greatest Evil
The 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...
What If We Don't Agree?
By 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...
The Immigration Debate: Can the Bible Help?
Editor'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...
We Won't Let You Go Home, but You Can't Stay Here
By 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...
Family Separation Has Long Been an American Government Policy: Six Generations of Our Chinese American Family Know Firsthand
By 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...
