Reel Images of Immigration: Additional Films - Elizabeth Denlinger Reaves
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.
REEL Images of Immigration: Dying to Live - Daniel Groody
“The long journey,” a Native American sage once stated, “is the migration from the head to the heart and back to the head again.”
REEL Images of Immigration: Made in L.A. - Nicole Higgins & Matthew Johnson
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.
Cleaning Up the Toy Room (and Immigration) - David Vásquez
Often when I ask my kids to clean the toy room, one of them will sit in the couch, arms crossed, and claim that she has already cleaned out all “her” toys, and the remaining ones are all her brother’s. In the annoying role of a parent, I try to point a few things:
REEL Images of Immigration: The Visitor - Jennifer Kottler
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.
State Immigration Legislative Updates-Week of August 1
State Legislative Updates-Week of August 1
