Eyes Wide Open

Once, when Jesus brought his disciples into Samaritan territory, he challenged their age-old prejudice. He told them, โ€œOpen your eyes,โ€ so they would be able to see a great spiritual harvest among these loathed people. Later, when framing the socio-geographical extent of their mission, he included Samaria along with Jerusalem, Judea, and the ends of …

Making My Mind, Mind

Have you read my memoir? Here's a piece of it from the chapter called "Making My Mind, Mind." Though I could not completely avoid the nagging voices of depression and despair, I began to block this โ€œstinking thinkingโ€ by trying to โ€œfix [my] thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and …

I Was a Stranger

This is an excerpt of a heart-wrenching letter written by detainees at the infamous Delany Hall Detention Center in New Jersey. Here's the link to the remainder of it. By means of the present, we take the liberty of providing an account of the situation that thousands of immigrants are living in detention centers. In …