January 2011
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fuchhhhhh-deactivated20111207 asked: To whoever runs this blog...thank you.
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“[In Matthew 25] Jesus gave us a long list of the disciples’ activities....”
– Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, as quoted by @UndocumentedTV in “Tim Keller, Justice, and Immigrants”
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“Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them a space where change can...”
– - Henri Nouwen (via Interaction Institute blog)
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“Every day when I look around my neighborhood, I am more convinced that our...”
– Kirsten Strand writing in When “Illegals” Become Neighbors for Undocumented.tv. Kirsten Strand is the Founder and Director of Community 4:12, a community development focused non-profit of Community Christian Church. She and her family relocated into the under-resourced community of East Aurora,...
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“This week, we saw a white, Catholic, Republican federal judge murdered on his...”
– Mark Shields on Obama’s Tucson Speech, Calls for Political Civility
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“Given the religious grounding for human rights, I am particularly grieved when I...”
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Dr. Helene Slessarev-Jamir writes in a post for Christians for Comprehensive immigration Reform. Dr. Slessarev-Jamir is a political scientist and serves as the Mildred M. Hutchinson Professor of Urban Studies at the Claremont School of Theology.
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Watchvia @UndocumentedTV: Today we remember the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Our new film A NEW DREAM is inspired by Dr. King
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“We are called to welcome & receive strangers because God commands us to do...”
– via @undocumentedtv: Matthew Soerens writing in Loving the Stranger
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“How can you live here and not care about this community? Everybody’s life...”
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Ouisa D. Davis quoted in “Heart for humanity: Lawyer tries to give hope to hopeless” in El Paso Times
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“Welcome to Shelbyville is a film about a phenomenon that is hardly unique to one...”
– Filmmaker Kim Snyder responds to some recent news coverage around her upcoming film Welcome to Shelbyville, which airs on Independent Lens this May. Read more in Filmmaker Weighs in on News in Shelbyville
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“For [the immigrant rights] movement to better reach the evangelical grassroots,...”
– Matthew Soerens writes in Evangelicals and Immigration in 2010. Matthew Soerens is the US Church Training Specialist for World Relief and the coauthor of Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate (InterVarsity Press, 2009).
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“It just doesn’t make sense. He taught me how to be a hard worker…...”
– Marine Lance Cpl. Aspar Andres on ICE’s up-coming decision about whether to deport his father Juan Andres or to give him a chance to present his case in court.
More here: U.S. Marine Asks ICE to Give His Father a Fair Day in Court