by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, From the Editor, Immigration
Coming back from what seems to be an increasingly shorter summer hiatus, we often incline to focus Bearings on somewhat more congenial concerns by way of ramping into a publication season that we know will face its share of challenges. But this time around, living in...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Featured Article, Immigration
“How did I never learn about this in school?!” Last month, I stood with a group of young people at the site of the largest massacre in modern Central American history, El Mozote, El Salvador. More than 1,000 civilians, mostly women and children, were systematically...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyMission, Commentary, Immigration
The demands on us related to immigration are overwhelming and may seem insurmountable. There seems to be no end to the mass suffering and injustice being inflicted on immigrant families—in particular children and youth—who are simply trying to survive in the midst of...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, Featured Article, Immigration
I was raised in Eatonville, Florida—the oldest all-black, incorporated town in the country. Eatonville sits between Daytona Beach and Orlando. We are smack dab in the middle of central Florida (thus the name of our university, the University of Central Florida)....
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | Art and Creativity, Creative Insights, Immigration
Peace has been hard to find for families being separated at the border. As people seek a safe and sustainable life here in the United States, they are criminalized for making the attempt to cross the United States border, and Texas poets across the state are calling...
