Category: justice
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Sacrificing Their Lives to Work
At 17 he went to look for another future. He left his friends from the Instituto Nuevo Amanecer, where he was a junior, behind in Honduras. He left his passion for soccer, the evangelical church where he used to sing, his siblings—Wilfredo, 25, and Iris, 19—and he left Juana, his mother. He took with him…
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“Gentrification is not magic…”
But when we talk about gentrification, understand that we really are talking about the result of actual policies endorsed, not simply by shadowy interests group, but by actual Americans, erected with the explicit intent of making sure that another group of Americans remain a permanent peon class. This is not the lens to view all of black…
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“God is Watching”
Elizabeth Dias on how some Christians are responding to the debt ceiling wrangling in Washington: Sojourners, a Christian social justice organization, ran a full-page ad in Politico on Thursday morning, warning politicians that “God is Watching” their actions. Sojourners’ supporters have sent nearly 100,000 emails to Congress on budget morality in the past two weeks.…
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The Sabbath, the Stranger, and Commodification
An article I wrote about the Sabbath and undocumented immigrants is now up at UnDocumented.tv. Does anyone keep the Sabbath anymore? I’ve come to the conclusion that the fourth commandment is the most ignored of the Ten Commandments. If we did keep Sabbath, I wonder how our thoughts about our undocumented neighbors might change. The…
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The 1919 Chicago Race Riot
On Sunday we began a new sermon series, one I’ve been thinking about for a while. I’ve called this collection of four sermons The Beloved Community, borrowing a phrase made popular by Dr. King. Beginning on Sunday our church started looking at the beauty of God-intentioned diversity and how quickly it turns towards disparity and…
David W. Swanson 