Panel: Stand Up to Unjust Immigration Laws

by | Nov 21, 2011 | News

As part of New Baptist Covenant II, the Oklahoma City satellite location hosted an ecumenical panel Friday to discuss immigration. With the EthicsDaily.com documentary “GospelWithoutBorders” as a backdrop, panelists were asked to respond to key themes in...

S.C. Undermines Immigrants’ Right to Feel Safe

by | Oct 21, 2011 | Opinion

Santos is a fifth-grader at my school. When he was in second grade, he was in my classroom for the first half of the school year. His parents are migrant workers, so when the spring, summer and fall work on South Carolina farms slows and stops with the winter winds,...

Who Will Proclaim Hospitality to a Hostile World?

by | Oct 20, 2011 | Opinion

Editor’s note: Below is part two of a two-part column on immigration and theology. Read part one here. Theology is by definition the result of an interaction between a faith experience and the intellectual and cultural setting in which it finds itself. In...

Immigration Issue Far More Than a Legal Problem

by | Oct 19, 2011 | Opinion

Editor’s note: Below is part one of a two-part column on immigration and theology.    Attending a recent screening of “Gospel Without Borders” and a discussion of its implications by some frontline participants clarified for me as nothing else the...