Joshua Langlais is a local photographer and the creator of A Community Thread, a project for which he interviews folks on the subject of community, its importance, and how we function as individuals within it. This is an excerpt from his interview with Erika Spaet, a Lutheran pastor coordinating and curating Storydwelling (bendstorydwelling.org), an emerging […]
Erika Spaet
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Sanctuary?
An initiative that may head to the November ballot would reverse current immigration law
On July 9, over 20 people holding signs that read “Oregonians united against profiling” gathered near the steps of the Deschutes County Courthouse to speak out against efforts to get rid of Oregon’s “sanctuary law.” Deschutes District Attorney John Hummel, Noah Goldberg-Jaffe of the Oregon AFL-CIO, Bend Lutheran minister Erika Spaet and Rural Organizing Project […]