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July/August 2009
PRISM
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--Features--
Mother of Exiles
by Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang
Understanding the history of American immigration is essential to bringing justice, compassion, and common sense to the highly charged situation of today.
by Harvey Finkle
A Philadelphia-based photographer captures the lives of 10 immigrant families—at work and at play, at school and at worship. (Be sure to check out more of Finkle's excellent photographs at HarveyFinkle.com.)
by M. Daniel Carroll R.
With migration, exodus, and exile as its pivotal themes, Scripture offers the wisdom and guidance we need to replace the rhetoric and labeling.
by Patty Kupfer
No one pretends that passing new immigration legislation will be easy, but the faith community can finally agree that it is essential.
What Part of Legal Immigration Don’t You Understand?
by Mike Flynn and Shikha Dalmia
This humorous chart makes a serious point: Immigrating legally isn’t nearly as simple as one might think.
Taking Up the Case of the Stranger
by Luis Cortés Jr. and Meredith Rapkin
With an estimated 12 million undocumented people living in this country, Christians have ample opportunity to befriend, educate, and advocate for them.
by Todd L. Lake, Daniel Medina, Nancy Gier, and Rosario A. Diaz-Cintron
Advocacy, legal representation, orientation, and spiritual guidance: a look at four faith-motivated outreaches to immigrants.
by Linda Espenshade
From diverse churches and faith-based organizations around the nation, evangelical leaders join forces to ask the administration to fulfill its promise of comprehensive immigration reform.
--Departments--
Reflections from the Editor
Confessions of a Xenophile
Talk Back
Letters to the Editor
Kingdom Ethics
What Kind of People Succeed in Marriage?
Stop Demonizing Immigrants
Immigration Has a Name
Reaching Working-Class Immigrants in Chicago’s Chinatown
From Fire to Frying Pan
Washington Watch
Stem Cell Research: Miracle at What Price?
Immigrant’s Art Points to Home
Off the Shelf
Scrutinizing Christian TV, prayer for ordinary radicals, the inextricable realities of faith and doubt, reclaiming discipleship in a postdemocratic society, coming together to care for creation.
Music Notes
Four Strings and the Truth: The Music of Jake Shimabukuro
Is Immigration Reform Just Another Way of Saying “Amnesty”?