immigration
Border encounters
The US-Mexico border is rich with ordinary life—not just the sort of stories amplified by political rhetoric.
An anti-Christian lawsuit
When Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a suit against a Catholic volunteer organization in El Paso, he went against his own church’s statement of faith.
R.M.N. is a kaleidoscopic allegory of all of Western civilization
Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu takes a hammer to true-to-life events and then puts the pieces back together again.
Acts of translation
In my work, I try to do justice—both to texts and to people.
The border is everywhere
For example, it runs right through a detention center in Mississippi.
Getting organized to help migrants in Chicago
“The buses have stopped coming,” says Katarina Ramos, “but there’s still a need for services for the people who were transported here.”
by Abby Garcia
A busload of migrants were told something was waiting for them in Chicago
It was our job to be that something.
Knitting with Simone Weil
The philosopher’s call to attention reminds me I’m making a difference.
A liturgy in the borderlands
Alvaro Enciso plants crosses where migrants have died, to keep them from disappearing into oblivion.
Title 42’s disastrous—and illegal—legacy at the southern border
The Biden administration has reversed Trump’s rhetoric around migrants but not all of his policies.
How 20th-century mainline Protestants shaped immigration policy
And how that policy shaped the 21st-century mainline church
Beauty from ugliness on the US-Mexico border
Presbyterian border ministry in Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Sonora