El amor cruza fronteras / Love crosses borders
What does it mean to remain awake in a time of rapid change, deep injustice, and moral confusion? Preaching in conversation with Martin Luther King Jr.’s final year, this sermon asks whether we are learning to see our neighbors—especially migrants and the marginalized—or whether we, like Rip Van Winkle, are sleeping through a revolution that is already reshaping the world.
This fall, Casa Alterna launched a new intentional community model, with six residents shaping a year centered on hospitality, solidarity, and mutual support.
In the shadow of Atlanta’s ICE field office, heartbreak and hope meet. Through quiet acts of compassion, Casa Alterna volunteers remind us that love—especially in the face of cruelty—is a sacred form of resistance.
Outside the gates of ICE, where hope and home so often collide, I witnessed once again how love—and the dignity it affirms—can make a home even in the shadow of exile.
He arrived on his 18th birthday, facing detention or deportation—until one simple "yes" changed everything.
While politicians celebrate Independence Day with fireworks and funding for new migrant jails, Casa Alterna reclaims the spirit of July 4th at the gates of ICE, where resistance and hospitality converge as a faithful act of freedom.
Greatness is found in standing firm in the Way of Love.
In this season of deep reflection called Lent, we are beckoned into the wilderness—a realm defined not by geography but by the state of the soul. It is a place of testing, struggle, and stark reckoning. In the Gospel narrative, we encounter Jesus in this wilderness: hungry, vulnerable, and solitary, standing defiant against forces bent… Continue reading No Way Back Home
Jesus didn’t build barriers—he crossed them. He taught us to love our neighbor, not to fear them.
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