Lenten Spirituality
Lent is a time when the church traditionally seeks, with humility, to center the heart on repentance, faith, and the soul’s readiness to draw near to God.…
Since January 20, 2025, the U.S. immigration system has experienced one of the most significant overhauls in modern history. Beginning with the inaugural executive orders that closed the borders, attempted to…
2025
Every year, I write a reflection.
This one resisted me.
It asked me to sit longer in the quiet,
to listen harder,
to remember what hurt and what held me.
2025 was not gentle.
I walked…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian and martyr, wrote Advent reflections that later appeared in God Is in the Manger, a work that helps the church contemplate the nearness of God in…
As a white middle-class American, the vulnerabilities of the immigrant journey can often feel distant. The distance takes many forms, including historical distance. My family is a mashup of Northern…
On November 10, 2025, I bore witness to our brother Raul being taken in for an “interview” while at his routine ICE check-in for his and his wife’s immigration process.…