by Blake Hart | Feb 4, 2019 | Opinion
Why don’t they just come here legally? This is, understandably, one of the most commonly asked questions when we’re talking about the number of undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. Many wonder why these individuals didn’t come legally in the...
by Blake Hart | Jan 18, 2019 | Opinion
I’m not the first, nor will I be the last to point out how Robert Frost’s poem, “Mending Wall,” critiques current conversations about building a wall on our southern border. In the poem, Frost and his neighbor are doing their annual ritual of mending the wall that...
by Blake Hart | May 10, 2018 | Opinion
It’s not often you hear the words “sin” and “immigration policy” in the same sentence, but there is simply no other way to talk about the atrocities that the Trump administration is committing against immigrants. Right now, entire...
by Blake Hart | Jan 30, 2018 | Opinion
The term “chain migration” is becoming commonplace in our political discourse when speaking about immigration policy. Media outlets are even using this term with increasing frequency. No question is given, though, to what it means or if it even exists....
by Blake Hart | Oct 2, 2017 | Opinion
Are we inviting the wrong people to our congregations? This unsettling question arose as I studied Luke 14:7-24 in preparing a recent sermon. Jesus is at a dinner party and he sees everyone jockeying for the most honorable seats. He tells them, “Take the lowest...
