By Ata Younan — 2021
City Colleges of Chicago immigrant students balance extra work hours, technology issues and limited English proficiency with remote learning.
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First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly inclusive figure he was, and what was true then is still true today.
Jesus tells us to welcome the stranger, to feed the hungry, to go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor. Jesus asks that we treat all of humanity with the same love, kindness and generosity that he modeled throughout his life.
Barber makes clear his belief that the role of Christians is to call for social justice and allow the “rejected stones” of American society—the poor, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, religious minorities—to lead the way.
Op-Ed: His papacy has been a consistent rebuke to American culture-war Christianity in politics.