by CRISPAZ Staff | Jul 29, 2019 | Events, Experiences
Mei Lin McElhill ’20 reflects on the ISP trip to El Salvador and how it challenged her to be immersed in another culture and to be open to learning. “I am ruined!” On May 31, I – along with 13 amazing people from the University – had the privilege of...
by CRISPAZ Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | Crossing Borders for Justice, Experiences
The Office of Campus Ministry offered a new immersion experience this May to explore the realities, causes, and effects of migration. A 10-person delegation, led by Associate Campus Minister Kaitlyn Buehlmann ’14, along with President John Hurley and his wife,...
by CRISPAZ Staff | Jun 9, 2019 | Crossing Borders for Justice, Experiences
By John J. Hurley Man’s inhumanity to man is a recurrent theme in literature and sadly, in real life. From the story of Cain and Abel in the Bible to the present day atrocities in Syria, humans continue to exhibit an astonishing depravity when it comes to their fellow...
by CRISPAZ Staff | Feb 2, 2019 | Crossing Borders for Justice, Experiences
Ohio voters may have favored a more restricted approach to immigrations in 2016, but for 17 students from John Carroll University in Cleveland, change may be coming. A campus ministry mission called “Crossing Borders for Justice – El Salvador Encounter...
by CRISPAZ Staff | Feb 5, 2018 | Experiences
Access to the Internet, as you might imagine, is somewhat limited in El Salvador. And so a group of John Carroll University students visiting the tiny Central American nation in early January were lacking their usual lines of communication, and as such were unaware of...