Violence in Juárez
The Most Important People
The comforting words of my faith that I repeat so easily must surely ring hollow to people struggling to find daily food and watching their children die. Phil Smith, The Poor will be Glad If some 30,000 people have been murdered in Mexico in the past 4 years, who do you think is really taking [...]
August 4th, 2010 by Misty Lindsey
Youth of Juarez
We were thrilled to be able to return this week to Juarez to be with our brothers and sisters here, to love and pursue, and to live life together and show them that they are not forgotten. The morning after we arrived we found ourselves in the midst of a Vacation Bible School for the [...]
April 6th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Murder City
We can still believe that destroying another human life is an extreme act. Unless of course, the slaughter is done by governments. Or the killing is done to some vague group variously dubbed as terrorists or gangsters or drug dealers or people – and this varies with location – of other color or religious notions. [...]
April 2nd, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
January 10th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Width of a Fence
Photo by Bruce Berman of Border Blog My spirit craves relief. The desert cries out for liberation. This afternoon is dragging on and the pain in my neck has moved closer to my brain, tender lightning storms brilliant in my skull. I just read about some more people being shot up and down. Another drug rehab place. 18 [...]
January 2nd, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Mornings in Juarez
The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money. Tracy Kidder – Mountains beyond Mountains Its 5:23 and the alarm on my cell phone is set to sound its melodious tune in 7 minutes, but I have been laying [...]
September 9th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Irony in the Desert
Dear Child of God, if we are truly to understand that God loves all of us, we must recognize that He loves our enemies, too. God does not share our hatred, no matter what the offense we have endured. Desmund Tutu Still not sure how Chris sniped this photo; comes with his tactical training, I [...]
September 3rd, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Seven
I can’t stand your religious meetings.
I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects,
your pretentious slogans and goals.
August 8th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Dark Side of the River
Poverty is not the problem, it is the symptom. The problem is an inability to share and to distribute the wealth. In 10 or 20 years, these kids roaming the streets will be the same kind of criminals we see here today. They will be killing and trying to smuggle drugs because they won’t see [...]
July 31st, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Service in the Desert
The greatest sin of political imagination is thinking there in no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today. Jesus for President This billboard says, “Serve your community”. Ambiguous and obnoxious billboards are infecting this already polluted city. Flooding the streets with more assault rifles strengthens the violence, injects more fear, closes more [...]
October 1st, 2010 by Matt Lindsey