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My mother was an illegal immigrant

HOW I CAME TO LOVE AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT

The years 1902-1929 were known as the Progressive Era in the U.S.  The doors to politics and political participation were thrown open wide to many more people, such as women who were disenfranchised, and it would henceforth be the People, not the states who would decide who served in the U.S. Senate. Immigration exploded as people from non-English European speaking countries started arriving in even greater numbers at our shores, and many were Catholic, or not considered to be white (or both.)  In particular,...

You can't ignore the border crisis.

YOU CAN’T IGNORE THE BORDER CRISIS

We’ve all seen the images of people trying to get into the U.S. via our southern border.  We’ve seen the “caravans” walking northward in Mexico from Guatemala, or hanging onto train cars, trucks, and so on. We shake our heads, change the channel, maybe whisper a silent prayer or explain to our children why this is wrong. We justify our birthright to this land, but piously deny others the same opportunities that we have. However you feel, though in the end,...

Woke Christian Women

WOKE CHRISTIAN WOMEN

As I follow the political and cultural news in America, I become increasingly distressed over the weaponization and misappropriation of the word “woke.” I know that there are radical groups on the left that claim this word as their own and use it to reflect their unique experiences, biases and agenda, and then there are other groups on the political right that interpret this word through their own experiences, biases and ahenda. It reminds me of the debate decades ago...

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