Dan De Leon > Recent Status Updates

While on a mission trip in Birmingham, I saw this book in the Civil Rights Institute’s gift shop. My first thought was, “Oh, cool! I’m reading that.” But my immediate second thought was, “And it should be required reading in every university in America.”

Really enjoying this collection of devotionals for Lent. March 7th’s closing thought gives me pause for how we’re called to be transformed in how we view self & neighbor in these hostile times: “There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are blessed and those who are also blessed. May the Church remember.”

"The Applied Research Center estimated that as of 2011 there were over five thousand US citizen children living in foster care b/c their parents were either in immigration detention or had been deported. Some were put up for adoption as incarcerated or deported parents lacked the resources to enforce their parental rights."

"The test of the morality of a society is how it treats its children." -Marian Wright Edelman

Simultaneously excruciating and invigorating to read this. Love the challenge and opportunity of writing a spiritual autobiography through the lens of race.

I found Matthew Vines' book informative, but based on Colby Martin's presentation thus far I can tell that this is going to be far more engaging and enjoyable to read than God and the Gay Christian. We'll see.