“Mormons on both sides in immigration controversy”
An April 30, 2010, Salt Lake Tribune article examines Mormons’ varying views on immigration reform.
Category: Beliefs & practices
“Should immigration reform benefit gay couples, too?”
A post at USA Today‘s Faith & Reason blog explains how provision in some proposals to benefit same-sex immigrant couples could become a major stumbling block for certain religious groups.
“Evangelicals Find New Unity on Immigration”
Read a Religion News Service story about the Evangelical response to the Arizona immigration law, posted May 14, 2010 at the website of Christianity Today.
“New SBC Immigration Policy in the Works”
On May 12, 2010, Richard Land and Barrett Duke of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission released the draft of “A White Paper: Principles for Just Immigration Reform.” The draft builds on previous statements by viewing immigrants and immigration reform in a positive light and is very much in line with what other evangelicals are […]
“Evangelical Leaders Unite on Just Assimilation Immigration Policy”
On May 11, 2010, an unusually broad range of evangelical leaders released a joint statement that calls for a “just immigration policy” that “begins with securing, not closing, our borders, one that provides a temporary guest-worker program, and one that offers a pathway for earned legal citizenship or temporary residency.”
“Religious Leaders on Immigration Reform”
Read a July 21, 2010, discussion among religious leaders on immigration reform, hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Howard Avruhm Addison
Rabbi Howard Avruhm Addison is the co-author of Jewish Spiritual Direction: An Innovative Guide from Traditional & Contemporary Sources (Jewish Lights, 2006) and co-founder of Lev Shomea, the first institute to train spiritual directors in the Jewish tradition. A congregational rabbi for 30 years, he is a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and the G. G. Scholem […]
Irwin Kula
Rabbi Irwin Kula is president of CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, a think tank dedicated to training Jewish leaders. He wrote Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life (Hyperion, September 2006), among others, and is a highly regarded commentator on the modern approach to understanding and practicing Judaism.
Debra Kolodny
Debra Kolodny is executive director of Nehirim, an organization that aims to provide programming that empowers the LGBT Jewish community. She is also a volunteer and professional activist in the faith, labor, social justice, women’s, and LGBT communities.