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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How God and “Deferred Action” Hastened Hope for One Undocumented Immigrant The following article is the second in a series, Tracking the Immigration Debate. This week we are cross-posting with our partner site, ecclesio.com. The author’s name is withheld for privacy in this article. For twenty years, I have lived
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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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Let’s Start the New Year with Hope and Justice for Aspiring Citizens ACTION ALERT: Send a postcard to your senators By Melissa G. Davis, Co-Manager of the PC(USA) Office of Immigration Issues Senator Rand Paul’s unmistakable voice called to me early one morning in November: “we need a pathway
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Financial Anxieties Block Justice Overtures at General Assembly By Joann Haejong Lee, 2012 Teaching Elder Commissioner and Moderator for Committee on Immigration Issues View and Print as PDF. I grew up in a working class family of immigrants. Even though my parents worked twelve hours a day, six
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A poem in response to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) re-authorization debate in Congress. Eighteen years ago, this week, VAWA was signed into law. In April 2012, the Senate approved a version of VAWA that extends services and protections to battered undocumented immigrants and to gay, lesbian, and transgender
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Claremont School of Theology, California Taking the Bible Seriously By Nina Fernando, Wesley Menke, Samuel Pullen, and Chad Seagle View and print as PDF. We are students of the Bible. A living, pulsing Word. So when seventeen Pomona College employees were fired because they were “undocumented”, when this
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Interdenominational Theological Center By Rev. C.W. Lowery View and print as PDF. Evolution of the church My concern for the nature of the church is not for the social justice successes or failures of past generations; my concern is for this generation—a generation adept at identifying and critiquing
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Pittsburgh Theological Seminary One Seminarian’s Perspective By Kelly Jean Norris-Wilke View and print as PDF. I am standing on pavement covered in graffiti. Letters from friends and loved ones spray-painted onto the black top. Letters saying goodbye to a seventeen-year-old community member shot on this spot on a
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Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Seminary students visit immigrant detainees at the Hutto Detention Facility in Taylor, Texas. By Ruth Elswood View and print as PDF. Maria sat across from us. Her hands shook; her cheeks wet from tears. We fumbled for words of hope as we spoke with
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National Call-in Day Wednesday, April 18, 2012 By Laura Markle Downton, UMC National Coordinator for Restorative Justice On Wednesday, April 18, in partnership with the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, join with people of faith for the National Call-in Day to our state governors to say No to Prison Privatization!
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