by Juan Aragon | Apr 22, 2014 | Opinion
The gospels include stories of Jesus sharing the good news of God’s kingdom with people from other cultures. In John 4, we read the well-known encounter and life-changing conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. This is a...
by Bob Newell | Feb 24, 2014 | Opinion
At the beginning of the 21st century, I lived in Houston and tended to observe immigrant struggles from the relatively safe and somewhat distant perspective of a privileged American. The fighting in Kosova (the Albanian spelling), where Serbian soldiers attempted to...
by Amy Beth Willis | Dec 4, 2013 | Opinion
I collected a rock in the Tucson sector of the Sonoran Desert, near the small town of Arivaca. I was in the desert with Sandra, a member of Southside Presbyterian, who is also a part of the Samaritans, a humanitarian aid organization that provides life-saving water...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 27, 2013 | Opinion
What images come to mind when you hear the word “pilgrim”? For me, I see men wearing black, broad-brimmed hats with large belt buckles and women wearing white bonnets and aprons. Often I imagine these folks gathered around a table with Native American...
by Robert Parham | Nov 19, 2013 | Opinion
Comprehensive immigration reform in the current Congress appears dead, another painful reminder of how broken Washington is and another promising opportunity for the church to be the church. “[W]e have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate...
