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How Friends, Facebook, and Prayer Stopped the Deportation of Bernard Pastor Originally Posted: 07/25/2011 - 9:27am | Type: Blog: In November 2009, Bernard Pastor, an 18-year-old undocumented student in Ohio, was stopped by police for a minor traffic violation and detained. ICE held Pastor in federal detention with plans to deport him to h ...
How I've Learned to Talk About Race Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: I confess: I used to cringe every time I heard the "R" word. I confess: I used to cringe every time I heard the "R" word. Growing up in suburban Atlanta, this wh ...
A Matter of Integrity: Richard Blumenthal's Vietnam Controversy Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut attorney general and Senate candidate, got himself into hot water last week when <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/nyregion/18blumenthal.html"> news acco ...
Mennonite College Will Now Play National Anthem Before Sporting Events Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:19am | Type: Blog: Goshen (Ind.) College recently <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/20/AR2010022002035_pf.html">unveiled its landmark decision</a> to play the national anth ...
Wisdom of a 5th-Grade Solomon Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog: "Ms. Baker, why are you teaching <em>here</em>?" one student, whom I'll call Solomon, inquired during one of our after school tutoring sessions. "You went to college," he co ...
A Prayer for Derrion Albert Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog: Every dawning day we wake to the news of human violence against humanity. We see images of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who've traveled a long way from home to fight terrorists. ...