Two volunteers, one a college student, the other a small business owner, accompany me on one of the church’s twenty-five-passenger buses to make a late-night trek to Sacramento International Airport. […]
The numbers of people who have been forced to leave their homes throughout the world are staggering and growing—imagine the entire population of the United Kingdom or half the population of Mexico having to leave their homeland. How do we begin to understand what that means? […]
There are times when I am just a teensy bit jealous of my twenty-year-old […]
Our global refugee crisis and what we can do about it. A conversation with Chitra Hanstad, Cindy M. Wu, and Susan Sperry.
Tali Johnson grew up in a strongly religious, conservative Muslim family in Kermanshah, Iran. Just as all the women in her family did, she married at age fifteen. […]
Tim Lowly’s large-scale triptych “Culture of Adoration,” disorients first-time observers […]
When doctors couldn’t heal my searing headaches, I learned to accept my pain as an integral part of my identity—and then it left. […]
With zeal, I write: Resolution #1: My body is a temple. I will no longer steal my children’s marshmallow Santas. […]
When I was a little boy I was afraid of the dark. We had a scary basement with only a single light bulb hanging over the washer and dryer, leaving everything else in shadows. […]
Rough lines outline a humble stable scene where the birth of Christ is celebrated by lowly oxen and sheep. […]
