By Melanie Springer Mock Few places are more lovely than Oregon’s Willamette Valley in springtime. After months of gray skies and persistent cold rain that teeters close to without ever quite becoming snow, a...
By Sarah Withrow King You’re hosting the holiday meal this year and have the menu all planned out when you learn one of the guests is vegan. Hospitality is important to you. You want...
I Was An Undocumented Immigrant It is a curious thing, the border—a fence, a few feet high, made of scrap metal, and with two different realities on each side. It divides everything, and it...
Samira Izadi Page is the founder and executive director of Gateway of Grace, the largest refugee outreach in North Texas. A refugee herself, Izadi Page delights in reaching out to people who need more...
A Christmas Tale by Helene Christaller The hut hung like a swallow’s nest on the southern slope of the Apennines. Built of the same stone as the rock on which it stood, it appeared...
The power of putting ourselves at the mercy of others by John Musselman “Jesus lived closer to these people than I do.” That was my thought as I watched three chawkidars quietly file down...
by Kendra Langdon Juskus Porch swings have long been a feature of my favorite warm-weather fantasy. There I sit, a book in one hand and a glass of lemonade in the other. Why a...
by Chris Haw As I write this, I have just spent a week in the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center. My legal conflict dates back to the invasion of Iraq. The day the war started,...
by Heidi Unruh In a nation wracked with depression after the collapse of the stock market and banking system, as millions suffered unemployment, hunger and homelessness, Dorothy Day co-founded the Catholic Worker movement. In...
by David O’Hara I came back from Fall Break with shingles. My doctor says that shingles is a recurrence of the chicken pox virus. Its symptoms include blisters and a heaping dose of pain....
