refugees

Rachel Jones has to choose between her children as she examines the realities of raising children in challenging places.

Not unlike the admonitions of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, religious leaders’ calls to welcome the disenfranchised stranger often fall on deaf ears in their congregations. I can’t help but wonder what’s going on here. What has brought the American church to this place? Why are so many Christians going against their religious authorities on this particular issue?

A college intern interviews torture survivors for the United Nations in a refugee camp and finds herself struggling with secondary trauma.

On geography, state fairs, and deep-fried nostalgia.

D. L. Mayfield explores her personal experiences of American inequality and considers what social justice might really looks like.

In this interview, Sister Marilyn Lacey of Mercy Beyond Borders discusses her new memoir, *This Flowing Toward Me*, her fear of spiders, her work with refugees, and the surprising movement of God’s grace.

Racial reconciliation and the parable of the Good Samaritan are both centered on rightly defining who owns what.