In their years of interfaith work, Anna Piela and Michael Woolf have heard an oft-repeated reason for why some Christians don’t want to learn about Islam or are reluctant to challenge their misconceptions about the faith: They fear they might convert.
This is my message to fellow Christians, especially evangelicals: We know better. We know better than to applaud the current mistreatment of immigrants in America.
Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship will host its annual conference March 13-15 at Eastern Mennonite University with the theme “Solidarity, Community and Resistance in this Political Moment.”
Low enrollment and an ongoing budget deficit have prompted Freeman Academy in South Dakota to close at the end of this school year.
When Szmara founded Immigrant Connection, a church-based network of legal clinics that assist immigrants, in 2014, some churches wanted to get involved, others said it was a good idea, and there was little resistance, he said. Now, he said, critics treat his work as anathema and ask him if he’s lost his faith.
After it was converted into a paramilitary base, its pews chopped into firewood by soldiers and its compound turned into a graveyard, All Saints Cathedral in Khartoum, the war-ravaged Sudanese capital, is rising again.
