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Keith Gustine, Former Duke Divinity School Intern

My First Job

By Keith Gustine, Former Duke Divinity School Intern

My first job was as a machine shop shipping clerk. I was probably a little young, but during the summer I was able to earn a few bucks and develop a taste for new and shiny bicycle parts. However, it wasn’t the money or what the money bought me that has lasted. When I think about that time, my friends and the people I worked with were a highlight.

My First Job

by Keith Gustine, Former Duke Divinity School Intern

My first job was as a machine shop shipping clerk. I was probably a little young, but during the summer I was able to earn a few bucks and develop a taste for new and shiny bicycle parts. However, it wasn’t the money or what the money bought me that has lasted. When I think about that time, my friends and the people I worked with were a highlight.

Baseball Strikes Out on Immigration

By Keith Gustine, Former Duke Divinity School Intern

Major League baseball player and All-Star Adrian Gonzalez, said last year that the anti-immigration law in Arizona was cause for boycotting the 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix.  A year later, […]

Baseball Strikes Out on Immigration

by Keith Gustine, Former Duke Divinity School Intern

Major League baseball player and All-Star Adrian Gonzalez, said last year that the anti-immigration law in Arizona was cause for boycotting the 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix.  A year later, […]

A Curious Shuffle in Georgia’s Farms

By Keith Gustine, Former Duke Divinity School Intern

Governor Deal believes ex-convicts on Georgia farms can fill 11,000 jobs opened by the state’s new harsh immigration law. The law authorizes all law enforcement to detain immigrants and that has scared away the undocumented workers who attended the fields beforehand. With unemployment hitting a critical high among citizens on probation, it seems the Governor sees the solution as a simple switch. But how many ex-convicts have gone out to the farms looking for work? If the potential workers who are on probation are not presently looking for those jobs, will this group migrate to the farms, because the Governor says so?

A Curious Shuffle in Georgia’s Farms

by Keith Gustine, Former Duke Divinity School Intern

Governor Deal believes ex-convicts on Georgia farms can fill 11,000 jobs opened by the state’s new harsh immigration law. The law authorizes all law enforcement to detain immigrants and that has scared away the undocumented workers who attended the fields beforehand. With unemployment hitting a critical high among citizens on probation, it seems the Governor sees the solution as a simple switch. But how many ex-convicts have gone out to the farms looking for work? If the potential workers who are on probation are not presently looking for those jobs, will this group migrate to the farms, because the Governor says so?

Reflections on the Statewide Summit

By Keith Gustine, Former Duke Divinity School Intern

Meeting at the beautiful St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston Salem, NC, the North Carolina Council of Churches hosted a summit to help connect people of faith from across the […]

Reflections on the Statewide Summit

by Keith Gustine, Former Duke Divinity School Intern

Meeting at the beautiful St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston Salem, NC, the North Carolina Council of Churches hosted a summit to help connect people of faith from across the […]