Whatever You Did for One of the Least of These, You Did for Me

CSA’s Nikki Toyama-Szeto joins twenty Christian leaders in a reading of Matthew 25, a powerful scripture that speaks to God’s concern for the most vulnerable. Watch the two-minute video below, as we dig deeper into God’s word to explore more of what it means for us as a church to share in God’s concern for refugees and immigrants.

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Israel, Palestine, and the Wilderness of Weeping

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As we exited Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, the sun was setting and the valley was covered in pink and orange light. It was so crowded that I quickly snapped a photo and stepped back, feeling uneasy about the question posed to us by our guide: “What will you do to make sure this never happens again?”

As I traveled throughout Israel and Palestine, I kept thinking about Rachel weeping in the wilderness, which we hear about both from sacred texts and from several traditions.

Fort Lauderdale, the Law, and Love

By Amy Simpson

In a press conference the day after a deadly shooting in the Ft. Lauderdale airport, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler summarized the FBI’s response to the shooter’s November cry for help: “We’re a country of laws, and they operate within them.” She was referring to the federal officials who initially took a gun away from Esteban Santiago in Anchorage, Alaska, then returned the gun to his possession a month later.