What would happen if a mother from Guatemala showed up at your church door with a little kid in her arms and said, “Can you help me?” – Rev. John Fife, co-founder of the 1980s sanctuary movement. Matthew 25:31-46 In response to the disciples’ questions about the coming of the Son of [...]Read More
Camino Devotional 7: August 26th, 2016
Psalm 12 (CEB) Help, Lord, because the godly are all gone; the faithful have completely disappeared from the human race! 2 Everyone tells lies to everyone else; they talk with slick speech and divided hearts. 3 Let the [...]Read More
Camino Devotional 5: August 24th, 2013
Bearing Burdens - Military Veterans “Don’t oppress the widow, the orphan, the stranger, and the poor; don’t plan evil against each other!” - Zechariah 7:10, CEB Scripture tells us, time and again, to care for the widow, the orphan and the stranger. There should be no exception when the “strangers” [...]Read More
Camino Devotional Day 6: August 25th, 2016
Work and Rest: Domestic Workers “The heavens and the earth and all who live in them were completed. On the sixth day God completed all the work that he had done, and on the seventh day God rested from all the work that he had done. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God [...]Read More
Camino Devotional 4: August 23rd, 2016
Deuteronomy 10:17-19 "For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, who executes justice for the orphan and widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger, [...]Read More
Neal Brubaker: Why I am doing El Camino
I am ill-informed In the vast world of immigration where there are so many issues, perspectives, and stories, I am still far behind in what I know. On an issue that affects millions of people, sometimes in a life and death manner, I remain relatively unaware. You could correctly say that my [...]Read More
Bill Francis: Why I am doing El Camino
I am a white, middle-class, 51 year-old American male. My ancestral family’s last immigration to America now happened well over 100 years ago, from Denmark. So my heritage hasn’t really informed me when it comes to the issue of immigration. I am also a second-generation, Christian minister and [...]Read More
Marco Grimaldo: Why I am doing El Camino
From Abosolo, Progresso, Ciudad Victoria, and San Luis Potosi I was six years old the first time that my parents took me on a “marcha;" a march for equal rights. I didn’t know it then, but my father had joined other leaders in a federal lawsuit to require equal education for Mexican-American [...]Read More