Plate Essays by readers
We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Plate.”
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How do we remember people killed by police
Call their names. Tell their stories. Confess our role.
In this Easter season, words fail
After the resurrection, the disciples’ words failed too.
A confession to you my nursing daughter
What am I to make of your singular desire for milk?
Potawatomi women are water protectors
Indigenous bodies are bodies that remember. We carry stories inside us—not just stories of oppression but stories of liberation, of renewal, of survival. The sacred thing about being human is that no matter how hard we try to get rid of them, our stories are our stories. They are carried inside us; they hover over us; they are the tools we use to explain ourselves to one another, to connect.
The pandemic has made us unintentional monastics
We are urged into the desert of retreat, and we are afraid.
A congregation that spans the US Mexico border
For more than a decade, Christians have worshiped together across the border wall.
How I learned to love worshiping via video call
I'm immunocompromised. My ability to attend worship has long been determined by the CDC.
Navigating the immigration labyrinth with two pastors facing deportation
We gathered in an ICE parking lot. Not to protest, but to show that we cared.