We thank you for thousands of sisters and brothers

Who seek education, who love this good land.

For they are a blessing to us and to others;

May we reach to offer a welcoming hand.

The refugees drowned in heavy seas off Bangladesh late on Thursday, part of a new surge of people fleeing a Myanmar military campaign that began on Aug. 25 and has triggered an exodus of some 502,000 people.

the Web Editors 9-29-2017

3. Bullet Holes and Rosé: Exploiting Black Pain for Profit
How one new Crown Heights “boozy sandwich shop” exemplifies the ongoing pain of gentrification: “In the case of Summerhill, not only do residents view the new bar as a sign of a rapidly changing neighborhood; many also view it as a commodification of black stereotypes rooted in a layered and painful history that has long plagued the country.”

4. When Police Officers Don’t Know About the ADA
The recent police shooting death of Magdiel Sanchez, a deaf man who often communicated with a metal pipe, highlights the increasing problem of police interactions — and miscommunication — with the deaf community.

The carpet has been pulled up from the floor of Burnette Chapel Church of Christ.

Five of its congregants, including the minister, remain hospitalized for gunshot wounds.

Those who aren’t hospitalized will attend a funeral Sept. 28 for Melanie Crow, who was killed as she walked out of church Sunday.

Now the Church of England’s trainee clergy are being offered help to understand Cranmer’s more obscure prose through a publication of a glossary. All first-year ordinands – the trainee priests studying at theological colleges – are to be given a copy of the guide together with a free copy of the Book of Common Prayer, an English-language product of the 16th-century break between England and the Roman Catholic Church, where Latin ruled.

9-28-2017

My God is_______

Alexia Salvatierra 9-28-2017

Pastor Carias and his family had done everything right. We in his network of supporters had done everything that normally should have resulted in a just outcome. We had to face that these were not normal times; we had to examine our methods.

We pray for others far away

Who’ve seen destruction, too;

We look beyond ourselves, for they

Are also loved by you.

Christian Piatt 9-27-2017

We have reasons for our distrust. Congress seems more intent on partisanship and on campaigning than they are on acting as public servants. They advocate for a different health care system for the rest of us than they do for themselves. They fail to stick to campaign finance reform and they protect their own version of insider trading. All of this plays a role in our distrust. But there’s a deeper core issue at play.  

the Web Editors 9-27-2017

An interactive map, courtesy of USC Dornsife's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, illustrates estimated numbers of populations who are DACA eligible, and numbers of actual DACA recipients by congressional districts. In the aftermath of the abolishment of DACA, the Department of Homeland Security has set a deadline for all individuals eligible to renew DACA by Oct. 5.