Category: Responses To World Events
Catholicity, Social Distancing and Undocumented Migration
The following is a guest post written in anticipation of the 2020 Missiology Lectures: Migration, Transnationalism, and Faith in Missiological Perspective: Los Angeles as a…
“The Didone Effect”: A Snapshot of a Mission Story in Taiwan Behind COVID-19
Camillian Father Giuseppe Didone is an Italian priest who has been in Taiwan since 1965. He started special care centers that look after the intellectually disabled…
In the Name of the Christ Child Refugee
In the Name of the Christ Child Refugee: In the “refugee” camp just outside of Tijuana, it is beginning to rain. For the hundreds of…
Reflections on the John Chau Tragedy
For a little less than two weeks a tragic story about a missionary effort to North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal has captured…
The Inextricable Binding of Justice, Grace, and Forgiveness
Like many others, I have been deeply affected by Rachel Denhollander’s powerful testimonies: both her words as the first plaintiff and last survivor to testify in the…
Can We All Get Along?
LOS ANGELES CIVIL UNREST, 25 YEARS LATER I can still smell the smoke and feel the despair I felt as I stood with my…
Anger, Peace, and God’s Mission
On a number of occasions I have had a student, staff member, or faculty member sit in my office with fists clinched or teeth gritting…
A Call to Love, Not to Fear
No doubt, the American public is rattled after its deadliest terror attack since 9/11. There were the Paris attacks last fall and the Brussels attacks…