immigration
A win for people power
A faith-based group successfully campaigned to get a major bank to divest from private detention centers. There is hope to be mined here.
What the border wall does
I went to Tijuana with a group of US Christians to confront the theology embodied by a steel barrier three stories tall.
Is the church in a status confessionis moment?
Rising totalitarianism is at odds with our faith, and we ought to be clear about that.
Sermons without church
For someone who doesn’t call herself a Christian, I listen to a lot of sermons. They’re providing some much-needed sustenance these days.
Amid cruelty and oppression, can the church be faithful at human scale?
We are all being formed not only by what we profess but by what our bodies learn to tolerate.
The racial dynamics of ICE violence
White people are not ICE’s targets. But allies who stand in solidarity often lose their privilege in the process.
The Cities Church protest and Bonhoeffer’s “promising godlessness”
When a pastor is an ICE agent, faithfulness might be found in what looks like its exact opposite—the active disruption of Christian practice.
