by Elizabeth Bukey: Yesterday afternoon we met two women who both work on healing in the Brownsville community: one a curandera and the other a medical doctor. An outsider, particularly an Anglo Seattleite outsider like me, might think that Maria and Marsha would be very different: a faith healer and an MD, a trance medium [...]
Posts Tagged ‘immigration’
The Galilean Journey Today- Meeting with Fr. Virgilio Elizondo
Fr. Virgilio Elizondo opened our day proclaiming that theology “is a critical faith reflection done by the people. Faith is not an abstraction.” It involves questions about a community of individuals concerning truth, goodness, and beauty; alternatively, it also approaches those items that are debilitating a community. In the first full day of our immersion, [...]
Borderland Bloggers
(from January 5 ) Over Christmas break in the mountains of North Carolina, waiting in the car for my mom to come out of the post office, a headline of a newspaper in one of those sidewalk newspaper boxes caught my eye: “Shogun Raid: 12 Deported.” If you know me, you know that “raid” and [...]
In the Eyes of a Dreamer: One family’s struggle to educate their children in the United States
Ramona directs the van driver, Martin, through the pot-holed streets of Colonia Muniz in south Texas, guiding us to a bright pink building at the community’s center. ARISE (A Resource in Serving Equality) is painted in bold letters on a sign outside, signifying the presence of the 23 year old non-profit. In their own words: [...]
Tamales and Gratitude
In January when we visited the Rio Grande Valley, one of the highlights was meeting local families from an area “colonia” (see previous post for definition of colonia) and spending an evening sharing stories and dinner. On that evening I was paired with a young girl, about 11 years old, who was vivacious, smart, curious, [...]
Re: Obama, Colonialism, and Immigration Reform
Dr. Cruz, Its great to see all of these issues you’ve been raising – so much to respond to! Regarding the status of Puerto Rico – a quick read through the island’s history and current status debate drives home the glaring contradictions in our own foreign policy with China and Tibet. One of the things [...]