In this short video, Hugo Olaiz, an immigrant, Christian, and Episcopalian offers a review of three documentary films that offer compelling portrayals of human migration to the US southern border and around the globe.
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“What we can do is to see where we can make a difference, no matter how small. One grain of sand doesn’t make a beach but get enough grains together and they can put a buffer between the land and the restless sea. Get enough individuals involved and seeming miracles can happen.”
#ChurchToo has apparently come to England. The BBC reports that the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has released an interim version of its final report nearly a month before it was expected, and that it does not paint the Church of England in a positive light.
It’s the annual summer book club episode! We’re each counting down our top three book recommendations while you’re lounging on the beach!
Fear obscures our vision, so we don’t see who counts as our neighbors. Fear holds us back from what our faith tells to do: risking ourselves (and our lives if need be) for the people Jesus lived and died for.
There is some happiness amid all the sad news this week. Kensington Palace has announced the date on which Prince Louis, the 3rd child of
“Alban was called to obey a bigger law–the law of Christ’s love for our neighbor.”
“Praying for the women who are detained helps us act out for ourselves and the world the humanity of those detained. It reminds us that they are children of God, even as the prison tries to make them something other than that.”