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Posts Tagged ‘Families’
 Former President George W. Bush receives a pro-life award this weekend from Legatus, an organization of Catholic business professionals. The group cites his administration’s opposition to embryonic stem-cell research, an executive order barring federal funds from international family planning groups that…
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Friday night we were the guests of a synagogue in West Jerusalem. It was beautiful to see the room full of Jewish families honoring God in song, reading, silence, and prayer. It was clear they intended nobody any harm; they…
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 Some in Washington would have us believe that immigration reform is politically untenable and economically illogical. However, God is on the move among Christians who care about the immigrants in their midst. This week’s gathering in Phoenix, Arizona, demonstrated that…
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Tags: America, Arizona, Asian American, Bible, biblical, brokenness, Campaign, ccir, Christ, Christian Community, Christians, christians for comprehensive immigration reform, church, church leaders, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Movement, compassion, confession, Congress, context, daniel carroll, debate, development, Economic, Evangelical, Evangelicals, Families, Family, God, History, Immigrant, immigrant families, immigrants, Immigration, immigration system, Latino, leaders, members of congress, Migrants, national association of evangelicals, old testament, pastor, phoenix arizona, Prayer, protest, service, Sojourners, Stories, Story, stranger, undocumented immigrant, voices
As is the case for many Americans, I use the Christmas and New Year holidays as a time to reflect and try to gain perspective on matters near and dear to me. So one evening, I sat down with my…
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Tags: Children, Christ, Christian, Christianity, church, Community, disciple, faith, Families, Family, God, Holidays, Jesus, jesus christ, journey, kingdom, love, Ministry, mom, parents, perspective, spiritual life, teaching, teenage, teenager, young adults, Youth
“Seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.” Isaiah 1:17
The words of the prophet echo in my mind as I think about Haiti. How to apply the prophets words in this situation? Give money, sure. Pray,…
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Tags: America, asylum, church, churches, citizen, compassion, crisis, detention, detention centers, Disaster, faith communities, Families, Family, government, Guantanamo, haiti, haitians, humanitarian, humanitarian crisis, Hurricane, isaiah, isaiah 1, Katrina, New Orleans, oppressed, orphan, prophet, refugee, refugee status, Scripture, settlement, Temporary Protected Status, United States, victim
While the rest of the world has been pondering the economic and social fate of the recently earthquake-devastated island nation of Haiti, Haitian-Americans alone have asked, “What will happen to our culture?”
As a first generation Haitian-American, I like many others…
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Tags: aftershocks, America, Children, college canado haitien, culture, earthquake, Families, fractures, haiti, haitian culture, History, hotel montana, identity, impermanence, Integration, parent, parents, Politics, tradition
While the recent crisis in Haiti has spurred many Americans to action — through donations, public service, humanitarian aid, etc. — it has also precipitated a reckoning with current domestic policy, particularly immigration. Last Friday, at the urging of Democratic…
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Tags: America, Campaign, citizens, citizenship, Community, compassion, Congress, devastation, faith, faith community, Families, Family, family unity, haiti, haitian immigrants, haitians, Hillary Clinton, humanitarian aid, humanitarian response, Immigrant, immigrants, Immigration, immigration advocates, immigration legislation, immigration policy, immigration reform, janet napolitano, legislation, lobbying, members of congress, Migrants, napolitano, neighbor, neighbors, postcard, Temporary Protected Status, United States
Imagine a prison where an inmate asks to stay an extra two weeks beyond his release date. It sounds improbable, but that’s just what “Bill,” a former resident of Virginia’s Natural Bridge Juvenile Correctional Center (NBJCC) did. Bill’s story points…
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Tags: abuse, arrest, budget, budget cuts, Children, Community, crime, detention, discipline, faith, Families, graduation rates, John DiIulio, justice, justice system, juvenile crime, juvenile justice system, Kids, law, police, police officers, prison, prisons, reform, restorative justice, school, Schools, service, state budget cuts, system, tolerance
We landed in Haiti about five hours ago. It has been approximately a week after the major earthquake struck this country. I had the privilege of traveling here with President Bill Clinton and other dignitaries to deliver some much-needed supplies.
There…
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Tags: Bill Clinton, Democrat, devastation, Disaster, earthquake, Education, evacuees, Families, food, government, haiti, haitians, Health, Homeless, Military, miracle, natural disaster, nurses, Poor, port au prince, Poverty, Privilege, relief, streets, Survivor, tent city, victim, volunteers, White House
Tags: Children, class, consumption, economy, Ethics, faith, Families, Finding Our Way in the New Economy, greed, guilt, guilty pleasures, living wage, moral compass, mother, plastic surgery, possessions, real housewives of orange county, Rediscovering Values, relationship, shallowness, values, wage, Wall Street, wives
My phone rang at 1:00 a.m. It was one of the young men in the family we lived with for the first seven months when my wife and I moved to Haiti. They’re our adopted Haitian family (that is, they…
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Tags: basic necessities, earthquake, epicenter, Families, God, haiti, haitians, Hope, hymn, miracles, Prayer, prayers, psalmist, rubble, singing
The jobs that pay my bills — speaking and managing EAPE – often carry me far from the jobs that don’t: writing and loving my neighbors here in Walnut Hills. Just a few weeks ago I found myself in Port-au-Prince,…
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Tags: Children, courage, david diggs, eape, faith, Families, government, haiti, inner city neighborhoods, john engle, neighborhood, port au prince, relationship, social justice, walnut hills
Nicolas Kristof had a recent article in The New York Times titled, “Religion and Women,” that’s worth reading. Unlike some of his other pieces, it’s not super long so it’ll take one sitting; but hopefully, it’ll sit with you for a bit.
I’ve…
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Tags: authority, Children, children of god, Christian, church, churches, congo, culture, debate, dignity, Families, female, galatians 3, girls, global poverty, Hindu, History, human, humility, India, injustices, Jew, justice, leaders, leadership, mass rape, Ministry, neighbor, New York Times, Nicolas Kristof, oppressed, oppression, ordination, ordination of women, pastor, Paul, Poverty, rape, rapes, Religion, rob bell, Scripture, wife, Women, women in the church, world religions
There are times when events make everything else pale in comparison. I’m in Los Angeles today on my book tour, but the news of Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake hitting Haiti is one of those times. Over the past few hours, I haven’t…
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Tags: Children, destruction, development, Disaster, earthquake, facebook, Families, government, Haiti food, haitians, hilary clinton, humanitarian, humanitarian relief, International, Katrina, Latin America, Media, natural disaster, natural disasters, New Orleans, Poor, Poverty, President Obama, relief efforts, rubble, stranger, streets, tragedy, victim, water, western hemisphere
Please God, save us from hyper-partisanship and hyper-media in perpetual election mode selling us a hyperbolic public discourse. Not everything is a crisis setting off alarm bells in a red hot explosive firestorm that may cost someone the next election. …
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Tags: 2008 Election, African-American, America, Apartheid, Barack Obama, Black, Campaign, candidate, class, Families, Family, injustice, justice, light skin, Media, mixed race, Partisanship, Politics, President, Race, racial, racist, Republican, Republicans, Segregation, segregationist, senate majority leader, senate majority leader harry reid, senator strom thurmond, senator trent lott, strom thurmond, trent lott, United States, White
While attention is focused on final negotiations over health-care legislation, Catholic bishops have signaled they will play a leading role in pushing for comprehensive immigration reform this year by using the power of their pulpits and bipartisan political influence on…
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Tags: America, Arizona, bipartisan, border, Campaign, capitol hill, Catholic, catholic church, Catholics, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, citizenship, common good, Community, comprehensive immigration reform, Congress, dignity, faith communities, Families, Family, grassroots, health care, health care reform, human dignity, Immigrant, Immigration, immigration reform, immigration system, justice, lindsey graham, luis v gutierrez, Mexican, Migrants, morality, organizing, partisan, PICO, Poor, Poverty, Prayer, security, sen charles schumer, Trade, u s conference of catholic bishops, undocumented immigrant, undocumented immigrants, values
Tags: bondage, Campaign, Children, clothes, employee, Families, Family, fear, Feminism, human trafficking, illegal immigrants, Immigrant, justice, Kidnapped, lawmakers, male, microloans, Migrants, modern day slavery, New Orleans, oppression, pimps, Politics, prostitutes, sex slavery, Slavery, Trade, Trafficking, Women, young girls
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