My parents grew up in the only neighborhood in 1960s Phoenix zoned for Blacks and Mexicans. That neighborhood, South Phoenix, was also the only place in 517 square miles of city zoned for waste dumps, sewage treatment, and mercury-spewing cement plants.
The federal government began trying to desegregate Phoenix in the 1970s, but my parents stayed south. They didn’t have much of a choice: they were priced out of anywhere else.
Right out of high school, my dad began putting in long hours driving a garbage truck for one of South Phoenix’s many landfills. My mom balanced full-time mothering with part-time work as a Spanish-language call center rep. Neither had the chance to go to college.
Yet I went to Stanford and, in fact, excelled there, …show more content…
I had an obligation to do whatever I could to prevent America from doubling down on mass deportation and incarceration, welfare cuts, and market deregulation. And that meant I had to do all I could to elect Hillary Clinton. So from August to November I supplemented my work teaching with 25 hours every week campaigning for Hillary Clinton and down-ballot …show more content…
My best chance of acquiring these skills would be to go to YDS and pursue the comprehensive M.A.R., whose distribution requirements in biblical studies, theological studies, and comparative and cultural studies guarantee that I will leave YDS prepared to fight compassionately for what’s right. And although the ministry I’m called to doesn’t expect ordination, I value the ministerial studies requirement nonetheless. I’d welcome any excuse to take Nora Tubbs Tisdale’s Prophetic Preaching class and learn how to cite scripture for social justice
The federal government began trying to desegregate Phoenix in the 1970s, but my parents stayed south. They didn’t have much of a choice: they were priced out of anywhere else.
Right out of high school, my dad began putting in long hours driving a garbage truck for one of South Phoenix’s many landfills. My mom balanced full-time mothering with part-time work as a Spanish-language call center rep. Neither had the chance to go to college.
Yet I went to Stanford and, in fact, excelled there, …show more content…
I had an obligation to do whatever I could to prevent America from doubling down on mass deportation and incarceration, welfare cuts, and market deregulation. And that meant I had to do all I could to elect Hillary Clinton. So from August to November I supplemented my work teaching with 25 hours every week campaigning for Hillary Clinton and down-ballot …show more content…
My best chance of acquiring these skills would be to go to YDS and pursue the comprehensive M.A.R., whose distribution requirements in biblical studies, theological studies, and comparative and cultural studies guarantee that I will leave YDS prepared to fight compassionately for what’s right. And although the ministry I’m called to doesn’t expect ordination, I value the ministerial studies requirement nonetheless. I’d welcome any excuse to take Nora Tubbs Tisdale’s Prophetic Preaching class and learn how to cite scripture for social justice