What If Our Border Walls Keep Out Mary and Baby Jesus?
By Maryada Vallet She walks the dusty trails until her ankles swell and her back pulsates in pain. Her womb, distended in the eighth month of pregnancy, slows her down, yet also gives her...
Tagged: immigration
Three Surprising Things I Learned About US Immigration From a DACA Dreamer
By Kristyn Komarnicki At the launch of ESA’s PrayforDREAMers campaign last month, when DACA recipient Vanessa Upegui-Seel spoke at Eastern University about her experience as an undocumented immigrant who was bought to the US at the age of...
Wij Zijn Hier/We Are Here
By 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...
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...
Strangers, Angels, and Undocumented Immigrants
I Was An Undocumented Immigrant It is a curious thing, the border—a fence, a few feet high, made of scrap metal, and with two different realities on each side. It divides everything, and it...
Why I #PrayforDREAMers
By James K. P. Williams Editor’s Note: ESA is launching a nationwide call to prayer for DREAMers and for clean legislation to replace DACA. Click here for more information. Also, watch a Facebook Live...
Share Their Stories
By Katie Tan Last month, I wrote about how I was overcome with despair at the evil in the world. Today, I am overcome by the evil within us—in America, in the actions of...
What Is the Value of One Human Life?
by Becky Baik I find I have been pondering this question a lot lately, and not just because it happens to be the promotional tagline for my husband’s favorite soon-to-be-released video game. We live...
Embracing My Cultural Inheritance as an Act of Repentance
by SueAnn Shiah One of the important lessons I learned when I first became a Christian was how to repent. You don’t see repentance modeled very often in the world. Sometimes people apologize, sometimes...
The Jesus Revolution
by Brian Zahnd You say you want a revolution Well, you know, we all want to change the world —The Beatles During the heady days of the Jesus Movement there was a pervasive conviction...
