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Reflections on a Death Foretold by Juan Carlos Ruiz

Reflections on a Death Foretold
by Juan Carlos Ruiz


Back in August of 2006, Elvira Arellano took sanctuary in her Church. Her decision was discerned and informed in prayer and motivated by her faith and was done as a last recourse to keep her family together. Motivated by this witness, the New Sanctuary Movement was launched the 9th of May 2007 in NY, LA, and Seattle. Since then at least 25 more cities have joined the movement and are planning a launch in the immediate future.  The public launching has a twofold purpose: to couch a new language, thus reframing and ...
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Posted by Reginald Swilley at 8/13/2007 6:11 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Un Llamado a la Santidad - Rabbi Laurie Coskey Ed.D.
Misa Santuario Rabbi Laurie Coskey Ed.D. El Comité Interfe de Justicia para Trabajadores June 3, 2007 Mis bisabuelos no creían que los Nazis llegasen a la Isla de Rodas, en donde los judíos gozaron una vida libre de discriminaciones. Trágicamente, dijeron que NO. En aquella época, mis bisabuelos no creían que podían darle de comer a otra persona y además no querían obligarle a su hijo a casarse con una joven que nunca había conocido. Esta bella joven se murió en los campamentos de concentración junta con el resto de su familia, porque los Nazis sí llegaron a la isla y aniquiló esta comunidad judía dinámica.
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Posted by Reginald Swilley at 6/4/2007 8:20 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Calling us to Holiness - By Rabbi Laurie Coskey
This is a sermon on the New Sanctuary Movement that Rabbi Laurie Coskey delivered at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral at the Misa Sanctuario – Sanctuary Mass on June 4, 2007. My great grandparents did not believe that the Nazi’s would reach the Island of Rhodes, where the Jews had enjoyed a life of freedom from discrimination. I learned that my great grandparents felt that they couldn’t feed another mouth and they didn’t want to force their son to marry a girl he had never met. Tragically, they said NO. She died in the concentration camps together with the rest of her family, because the Nazis did get to the Island of Rhodes and annihilated the vibrant Jewish community there.
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Posted by Reginald Swilley at 6/4/2007 8:12 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Salvation is coming. Salvation is coming…. By Juan Carlos Ruiz
... There is a war and it is not being fought only on foreign soil. There is a war in our own backyard against our communities of color, the poor and the immigrant. Here, on the iron, twisted streets of NY, our families who have taken sanctuary have a rather somber view of things: the supposed immigration reform (a compromise of a compromise) does not solve their plight.
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Posted by Reginald Swilley at 5/26/2007 6:59 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Rallying the Faithful - Kim Bobo, Interfaith Worker Justice
I am concerned that we are not tapping the U.S. public's moral imagination and core values of fairness...
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Posted by Reginald Swilley at 5/11/2007 4:15 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
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