Immigration is one of those topics that seems simple…until you get close enough to see it clearly. From a distance, it’s easy to sort everything (and everyone) into categories: legal or illegal, compassion or enforcement, open or closed. But the closer you get to the lived reality, the murkier those categories become. You start to […]

From our friend Matt Ham, Pastor at Hope Community Church in Charlotte, NC. Brothers and sisters, before we pray together, we want to name what many in our city are feeling this week. Increased immigration enforcement has created real fear for many of our immigrant neighbors—fear for families, for children, for work, and for safety. […]

Dear friends, This month marks 100 days into Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. If you’ve felt like those 100 days have carried the emotional weight of a decade, you’re not alone. It’s not just presidential actions. Every day brings another news alert, another reason to feel that familiar knot tighten in the stomach. The […]

Like so many, I woke up the day after the election to what felt like a changed world. To lay my cards out, I was much more voting against the dangers of another Trump administration than out of enthusiastic embrace of a Harris agenda. Given my evaluation (which I recognize may or may not be shared by everyone […]