by James Gordon | Jan 19, 2018 | Opinion
How do we respond to the company of strangers? Do we find ourselves enriched or threatened? In his book, “Practical Theology,” Terry A. Velling writes, “Our English word xenophobia means ‘fear of the stranger.’ If we turn the word around,...
by Mitch Randall | Jan 18, 2018 | Opinion
Immigrants play a central role in the biblical narratives. Abraham – the father of Judaism, Christianity and Islam – began his journey of faith as an immigrant dreaming for a better day (Genesis 12-23). After the death of his father, Terah, Abraham had an...
by Richard Schweissing | Jan 18, 2018 | Opinion
I teach citizenship classes. One of those classes focuses entirely on rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizens. In my class, I especially emphasize responsibilities. I point out that the responsibility to use our rights for such things as free speech, voting and...
by Molly T. Marshall | Dec 11, 2017 | Opinion
I was in Myanmar last week with a group from Central Baptist Theological Seminary. We visited churches, the Kachin Baptist Convention, a camp for internally displaced persons, two drug rehabilitation centers, two theological schools and the Fountain of Love Orphanage....
by Sue Smith | Dec 7, 2017 | Opinion
When we look at issues of migration and human rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), we see that there’s still much work to be done on our part on behalf of immigrants and refugees. And today, it’s particularly important that we add...
