The Right Is Blatantly Misusing the Term “Human Trafficking”
White is boldly misusing the term "human trafficking" when she applies it to children whose parents paid to have them smuggled into the U.S. to escape gang violence. These children are not being...
View ArticleDoes Heaven Have Open Borders?
Comparing your country to heaven---and then actively denying others' access to it---is some bizarre form of hubris and cruelty. It's not that people don't want to follow the rules. It's that the rules...
View ArticleWhat Does “Christian” Even Mean Anymore?
More posts are on their way, but I'm having trouble consolidating my thoughts right now, what with the hysteria over the asylum seekers traveling through Mexico and the shooting in Pittsburg and all...
View ArticleWhy I’m Not Scared of Migrants Who Are “Gang-Aged Males”
Frankly, a "gang-aged male" in a gang-dominated country who is leaving to seek a better life is the kind of gang-aged male we should want to have in our country. Unless it is Bachman's position that...
View ArticleEvangelical “Parable of the Caravan” Takes a Bizarre Turn
Last week, prominent evangelical theologian and Christianity Today blogger Ed Stetzer published an article by Kent Annan, director of humanitarian and disaster leadership at Wheaton, titled "The...
View ArticleRepublicans: From “Tear Down This Wall” to “Build That Wall”
In the United States, conservative politics learned heavily on anti-Communism. The political Right, in other words, cheered those who crossed the Berlin Wall in what amounted to illegal border...
View ArticleTrump Administration Removes Feminist Protections from Immigrant Policy
This isn't just an immigrants' rights issue. It's a feminist issue. A married woman who is prevented from getting a job and is dependent on her husband financially is inherently vulnerable. Women who...
View ArticleJames Dobson on the Border: We Need a Wall to Keep Out the Poor
There is nothing redeemable here at all. Dobson has seen the desperate people at the border, destitute families begging for help, for a chance to create a new life in the U.S. And his conclusion is...
View ArticleJames Dobson: Migrants “Will Soon Overwhelm the Culture”
There is something wrong, in this country, with the way we talk about racism and white supremacy. There's this idea that racists and white supremacists are skinheads with Nazi tattoos who join militia...
View ArticleTrump to Hold Evangelical Rally in Hispanic Megachurch
If you have to assure people that they won't be ripped from their homes and thrown out of the country if they attend a political rally you're hosting, you may want to rethink your choices. Click...
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