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Soccer
In his blog this week Jorge Rivas shared the make up of U.S. World Cup Men’s Soccer Team and wrote: “For a country where immigration reform is a such a hot button issue, it’s interesting to note that more than half of the team was born outside the U.S. or have parents who are immigrants.” Take a look at his post and consider how different our team would be without the diversity of cultures represented. How might the inclusion of various…
Immigration and Hospitality
In Matthew 10.40-42 we read about the importance of hospitality among the faithful. It took courage and commitment for the persecuted Christian community of the First Century to offer hospitality to prophets and preachers, so Matthew reminds his readers that they are ministering to Jesus himself in welcoming his disciples and brothers and sisters in the faith who might come from unknown places….. The cup of water that Matthew asks us to offer is a dangerous thing. It assumes…
“Them”
“Never again,” we cry. We wish. We remember the six million, we think the Nazis were cruel and crazy, we think all that was so strange and faraway. We look at the past, we look far off, we look away. That’s all it takes for it to happen again. We think “them,” not “us” not “my people.” We never think. “I’m part of that.” You see, it happens all the time. Jews, Gays, immigrants, Palestinians, Indians, prisoners, the infirm, the…
Immigrants
Ched Myers writes, “The political winds of imperial conquest and settlement, and the global economic currents of boom and bust, push and pull people like great tides. They have shaped and reshaped the shorelines of countries and cultures since the first soldiers of fortune landed lost on the beaches of Great Turtle Island. To blame the immigrant for the tides is like blaming a fallen apple for gravity. Who is legal, who is an immigrant, and even who is…
Toward Sunday
We continue our worship series this Sunday called Don’t Talk About That at The Table; inviting reflection & conversation on many of the topics we “aren’t” supposed to talk about in church. This week we will consider Immigration. We hope that this worship series will create safe environments for challenging conversations. Outline January 12: United Methodist Social Principles (Acts 10.34-43) January 19: Race (Matthew 5.38-48) January 26: Immigration (1 Corinthians 1.10-18) February 2: Abortion (Micah 6.1-8) February 9: Gender (Ephesians 5.22-24 & Galatians 3.28) February 16: Sexuality…