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…
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.…
In September, I wrote in response to the unbelievable actions of this administration against unaccompanied minors under their care—rounding up children in the middle of the night with the express…