Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Welcome to Holy Week

Looking to focus a little more intentionally on prayer or scripture reading as we prepare for Easter? Consider visiting Sacred Space, the prayer site run by Irish Jesuits. I've listed a couple other links at my church's blog.

And if you're not sure what to think about all the pro-immigrant protests, try this article from Slate: the author's take is that the happy medium between the House's amnesty bill and the Senate's criminalization bill is to do nothing at all - make it neither harder nor easier to get into the country legally, and neither offer more incentives nor threaten brute force to undocumented immigrants who are here already.

It seems a plausible policy, likely to satisfy no one (but perhaps won't enrage anyone as much as either of the bills proposed currently). Yet as a Christian I believe in hospitality for the sojourner, and welcoming the stranger - check out Sojourners' faith-based perspectives on compassion, not criminalization.

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