The following sermon was preached at Rutgers Presbyterian Church on November, 22, 2015, Christ the King Sunday. Author Rev. Mark Koenig writes,
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The first time that I crossed the US/Mexico border from Douglas, Arizona, into Agua Prieta, Sonora, I remember a welcome sign on the side of the highway: Bienvenidos a Mexico. The border wall, a slotted metal cage that stretches miles
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“Make yourself at home.” This is a phrase we hear and utter often. What does the phrase mean? When a host says, “Make yourself at home,” does he or she literally mean for you to turn their home into yours? I have been a guest and a host many times
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It is easier to join the environmental cause after being inspired by the beauty of the earth than through the ecological crisis alone, just as it may be easier to experience the Glory of God while looking at the stars above than that to perceive Christ’s Good News in the
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September 21 – October 5, 2013 From September 21 – October 5, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will tour cities throughout the southeast, urging Publix Supermarket to join the widely lauded Fair Food Program. See below for a list of cities, dates and how to get involved. And stay tuned
MoreOne of the great hallmarks of speculative fiction is that like theology, it looks at the present through the lens of the future. In the church we struggle with both ontological future and the immediate “worldly” future – the consequences of our current actions in their imagined possible contexts. This
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Echoes of Empire in the Immigration Debate. The people making the decisions about immigration use it as a political contrivance; its solutions in name are solutions to symbolic and electoral problems. Each potential humanizing improvement is met with a provision based on a rollback of reason. Nowhere do we see
MoreJoin the National Day of Action on April 10, 2013 and urge congress to reform our nation’s immigration laws. People of faith and good will are gathering in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to rally and visit with members of congress. Support their efforts by calling your representatives that day and
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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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