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Based on the story of the apostle Paul's near catastrophic shipwreck (see Acts 27-28) , this is a call to individuals to "shake off" problems and disasters in life and move forward to new health and wholeness. Some days you feel as if you take one step forward only to fall back two—or ten—...

this first episode of my Love Without Borders podcast, I share my personal story about living apart from my husband because of immigration issues. 💔Even though we can’t be together physically right now, our love continues to grow stronger every day. This podcast is for anyone who knows the pain of distance, the struggles of waiting, and the power of unconditional love.🌍 In this episode, I talk about:• The challenges of being in a long-distance marriage due to immigration• How love survives separation and waiting• The emotional ups and downs of distance relationships• Why “...

Navigating the subject of immigration can feel overwhelming. This podcast gives you the clarity, guidance, and tools to engage with confidence. Each episode combines expert legal insight, practical advice, and a faith-based approach to help you understand immigration law, navigate complex conversations, and take meaningful steps in your community. Through actionable strategies, and thoughtful guidance rooted in faith, this podcast empowers listeners who care about justice and inclusion to speak confidently, act intentionally, and live out their values with calm and clarity. You’ll gain the ...

In this audiobook, World Relief immigration experts Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. They put a human face on the issue and tell stories of immigrants' experiences in and out of the system. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths and misconceptions about immigration and show the limitations of the current immigration system. Ultimately, they point toward immigration reform that is compassionate, sensible, and just.

In Counter Culture, New York Times best-selling author David Platt shows Christians how to actively take a stand on such issues as poverty, sex trafficking, marriage, abortion, racism, and religious liberty—and challenges us to become passionate, unwavering voices for Christ. Drawing on compelling personal accounts from around the world, Platt presents an unapologetic yet winsome call for Christians to faithfully follow Christ into the cultural battlefield in ways that will prove both costly and rewarding.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. Though some moved on to Philadelphia, Chicago, and other points west, many of these new citizens settled in New York City, especially in Manhattan's teeming tenements....

Many American Christians have good intentions, working hard to welcome immigrants with hospitality and solidarity. But how can we do that in a way that empowers our immigrant neighbors rather than pushing them to the fringes of white-dominant culture and keeping them as outsiders? That's exactly the question Karen González explores in Beyond Welcome.

A collection of sermons and speeches that lay out a groundbreaking vision for intersectional organizing, paired with inspirational and practical essays from activists in today’s Poor People’s Campaign The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has been called “the closest person we have to Martin...

A must-read for modern sanghas--Asian American Buddhists in their own words, on their own terms. Despite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists identify as Asian American, mainstream perceptions about what it means to be Buddhist in America often whitewash and invisibilize the diverse...

The wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who swept into New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by way of Ellis Island were not welcomed by the Jews who had arrived decades before. These refugees from czarist Russia and the Polish shtetls who came to America to escape pogroms and persecution were considered barbaric, uneducated, and too steeped in the traditions of the "old country" to be accepted by the more refined and already well-established German-Jewish community. But the new arrivals were tough, passionate, and determined.

Joachim Gauck über das zentrale Thema unserer Zeit. Was muss die Gesellschaft, was muss und was sollte der Einzelne tolerieren und wo liegen die Grenzen der Toleranz? Die Lebensentwürfe, Wertvorstellungen, religiösen und kulturellen Hintergründe der Menschen werden immer vielfältiger - für manche eine Bereicherung, für nicht wenige eine Last. Wie viel Andersartigkeit muss man erdulden? Wie viel kann man erdulden? Wie viel Kritik aushalten? Welche gemeinsamen Regeln müssen bei aller Verschiedenheit gelten?

The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine, and war. It investigates the tenuous spaces where individual experiences inform and become public history; it studies the ways in which memory shapes identity, and reveals how context and audience shape autobiographical narratives.

Join us for Season 4 of ”Our 7 Neighbors” hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. With currently 281 million migrants worldwide and our own country frozen in inaction on the issue, the situation grows more tenuous by the day. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the narrative.