by Greg Smith | Mar 2, 2018 | Opinion
Our Mission Immersion Experience group through the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond was well aware of the immigration conversation in our country and its impact on our immigrant friends and neighbors. What we weren’t aware of was how decisions to leave...
by Mitch Randall | Mar 1, 2018 | Opinion
John Smyth and Thomas Helwys fled England for Holland at the beginning of the 17th century. Migrating across the English Channel, Smyth and Helwys arrived on the shores of Holland as hopeful immigrants seeking to follow their conscience, practice their faith and...
by David P. Gushee | Feb 28, 2018 | Opinion
Our nation’s immigration system is broken. This is widely agreed, even when little else is. For at least a decade, the outline of a comprehensive fix for our broken immigration system has been relatively clear, but Congress, in its constant state of partisan...
by Cadance Tyler | Feb 28, 2018 | Opinion
El Mozote is hidden in the countryside of El Salvador. In 1981, this small village became the site of a horrific massacre. As a tactical move by the army during the country’s civil war, approximately 1,000 innocent village residents were slaughtered. Thirty-six...
by Joseph Furio | Feb 27, 2018 | Opinion
A Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond trip to El Salvador coincided with the Trump administration’s Jan. 9 decision to end temporary protected status for 200,000 Salvadorans. The decision seemingly led up to the intolerable behavior of our elected...
