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Cornelius the Centurion and Families Who Don’t Fit In

February 7, 2020 By Miguel Escobar 3 Comments

I will always remember the first time I met my husband’s brother.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, church, Cornelius, Family, inclusion, Jesus, St. Peter

Separate is (still) not equal in public schools

May 17, 2019 By Miguel Escobar Leave a Comment

Earlier this year, I met a friend for a remarkable lunch. A relatively new church goer, she had heard a sermon on the beatitudes and wanted to speak with me about whether we Christians were really serious about trying to live that out.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, race, school

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Cost of Discipleship Today

April 9, 2019 By Miguel Escobar 3 Comments

Today the Episcopal Church celebrates Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian, a founder of Germany’s Confessing Church movement, and forceful resister to Nazi dictatorship.

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