Grand Rapids, Michigan: Praying with Purni
Purni was born and raised in Bhutan in a family of ethnic Nepali farmers called Lhotshampas or Southerners. She was married in her late teens. […]
Diana Trautwein
February 9, 2018
Purni was born and raised in Bhutan in a family of ethnic Nepali farmers called Lhotshampas or Southerners. She was married in her late teens. […]
The first time we met Hassan he said to us, “In Sha’ Allah (God willing) some day we can go back to Syria.” It was November 10, 2016, and my husband, Alex, and I had entered the address into our GPS and followed the instructions to Hassan’s family’s home in Sacramento. […]
In the summer of 2015 I heard a CBC radio story about Canadians who formed small groups to sponsor Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s. […]
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. […]
