This Sunday, March 21, we invite you to join with us and thousands of other people of faith from around the country, and with tens of thousands of other Americans, at March for America: Change Takes Courage and Faith. Come show your solidarity with immigrants to America and their families, and our support for just and humane immigration reform.

Each day this week, we’ve featured a film featuring different aspects of the immigration debate, and how these issues relate to our faith. Narrowing down our selections to four films was difficult because there are so many great choices on this topic. Here, in no particular order, are the rest of the best. Check them out and download our film guide to host a screening on one that speaks to you.

“The long journey,” a Native American sage once stated, “is the migration from the head to the heart and back to the head again.”

Everybody is working for the weekend, unless you’re a grad student, which we are. Really, graduate school is prolonged adolescence — lots of reading and writing to avoid the 40-hour grind that is adulthood. In today’s world, everyone seems to be looking for the way to avoid working 40 hours. Start your own business, find that niche product, or order that money-making book from the guy with question marks on his jacket. All of this is done to avoid working harder than we have to.

Some months back (while I was still getting Netflix) I received a movie that I quite honestly couldn’t remember having in my queue.  And as anyone who has ever gotten Netflix knows, each movie comes with only the briefest of descriptions.  So late one night, I found myself at home watching The Visitor on my computer.

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