Happy Thanksgiving, Pilgrim
"This Thanksgiving Remember the Immigrant, Pilgrim"- Jim WallisFrom Sojourners' Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform page at Faith and Immigration blog. Check it out, register, learn, get ready for the work ahead in 2010.

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Evangelical Churches, National Association of Evangelicals and God’s compassion for the immigrant
I sent the following to the President of the Baptist denomination that my evangelical church is a part of this week in response to the reaction of restrictionist groups to the statement in support of comprehensive immigration reform by the National Association of Evangelicals and the kerfuffle that followed. I have edited the what follows to be more generic and encourage you to edit and use it in your context. …The impetus for my writing at this time are the events surrounding the recent testimony of prominent evangelical leaders be

love casts out fear, not immigrants
Professor Rah's blog features Jose Morales, Jr. “Immigration, Fear, Cultural Idolatry and the Liberating Power of Faith" Mr. Morales makes good points about the nature of fear and the treatment of immigrants."The sad tale to this saga for me, as a faithful Christian, is that this cultural hegemony has been, and still is, sanctioned and sustai

My response to a conversation on Facebook
I recently did a Facebook updated in order to send people to my post below on Lynn Hybels testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Immigration. A flood of comments followed. I have now responded. And, my comments are:"All of the conversation here surprised me, as my original intention was to drive traffic to my blog on this topic. I am not going to address everything that people have injected here, but I do want to say a couple of things. For those who may want to develop a Christian faith-based viewpoint on the migration of people and specifically people immigrating to the United States, I recommend 3 books that I have read in the past 18 months. Welcoming