A few weeks ago, in the run up to a discussion about the Border, I started kicking around an idea that I haven’t seen anywhere else. My friend Jason Evans has started prodding me to spit it out, so this is a first attempt, to which I hope comments and discussion will flush out aContinueContinue reading “Jesus was an Immigrant”
Category Archives: Immigration
Wednesday in Holy Week
(Icon from Society of Saint John the Evangelist) Tenebrae, the service of shadows, traditionally occurs on Wednesday in Holy week. We enter into the Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah. Lamentations 2:19 reads Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches!Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord!LiftContinueContinue reading “Wednesday in Holy Week”
I feel like an Immigrant
Immigration continues to be present for me. My buddy Casey wrote a song for my other buddy Chris based around the ideas in his graduate thesis exploring immigration. I’ve been in continuing conversations about immigration lately, some of them framing immigration as the new civil rights question for our time. Could San Diego be theContinueContinue reading “I feel like an Immigrant”
Dead in the Water
A week ago now, “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” failed in the Senate. 12 million people live and work in the United States without documents. We have a broken immigration system that cannot manage or deal with our labor needs, the people already here, and those on their way. People blamed the failure on the massive gapContinueContinue reading “Dead in the Water”
Mike Angell 