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“I got my husband fired from ministry.
It was…hard. Looking back, I can now see it was an abusive situation. We moved to Nevada immediately after, and as soon as we arrived I shook my fist at God and said, ‘If you’re a bully, I want nothing to do with you.’ I was hurting and frustrated.
I took a year off work just to recover from it all, and eventually I went on an Immersion Trip to Israel-Palestine. It felt like I found my people. Really, the vision of Jesus I gained from my trip to Israel-Palestine, the community of people working for peace, these are the reasons I’m still a Christian.
Israelis and Palestinians working together for peace. I grew up in the Church, and I never heard these stories—how? I think that trip was one of the first times I saw what the Church could be.
During my first year teaching ESL, I had two undocumented students. I felt I wasn’t doing my job if I didn’t understand what they were experiencing as undocumented, young, unaccompanied minors. They told me about their time in detention centers.
I couldn’t separate work and faith and politics and everything, you know?
The current situation with children being separated from parents and dying in these detention centers has horrified me. I’ve been deeply disturbed by it.
And this is something I care deeply about: how do we live with a political faith?
How do we understand a faith that embraces social change?
I’m still trying to figure that out, and I’m glad to be around people who are doing the same.”
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