Nearly two weeks after 99 clergy members were arrested and charged during a protest at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, three are sitting down to share their story.
Rev. Katherine Lewis of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Minnetonka, Rev. Daniel Ruth, executive director of Lutheran Partners in Global Ministry, and Rev. Amanda Lunemann of Grace United Methodist Church in Burnsville each say they felt a calling to be at the airport protest, despite the risk of arrest and the reality of the bone-chilling cold.
“My vocation has been to walk beside my neighbors. This has been a really intentional, concrete way to do that,” Ruth said. “Part of being a faith leader is trying to get at what is true. The sort of underlying assumption of the whole surge is that immigrants are criminals and immigrants and dangerous. I don’t think the facts bear that out.”…