Aaron Stauffer is a student at Union Theological Seminary, New York, coordinator of the Student Christian Movement – New York City, and Associate Director, Religions for Peace. The intersection of citizenship and immigration is finally coming to the fore of national conversations. President Obama in his State of the Union
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Greg Sullivan is program director of Irate & First Friends, an organization that advocates for changes to immigration policy and visits immigrants in four New Jersey detention facilities. Expectation is high that we will finally have comprehensive immigration reform in 2013. It is much less clear, however, what that reform
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What Christians Can Contribute to the Immigration Debate Teresa Waggener is co-manager of the Office of Immigration Issues of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) From creation to revelation, the Bible bears witness to God’s deep and abiding love for humanity. A condition of our humanness reflected throughout the Bible is that
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Sung Yeon Choi-Morrow is a National Organizer for Interfaith Worker Justice. The following article is the third in a series, Tracking the Immigration Debate. This week we are cross-posting with our partner site, ecclesio.com. Movements are not lofty things we only learn about in history books or from PBS programs.
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by Melissa Garrett Davis The following article is the first in a series, Tracking the Immigration Debate. This week we are cross-posting with our partner site, ecclesio.com. Melissa Davis is co-manager of the Office of Immigration Issues of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) But our citizenship is in heaven, and it
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