Mexico
A. Muia writes like she’s inventing a new language
Her spellbinding novel in stories transforms Baja California into a dreamscape of violence, longing, and hard-won grace.
The lives of wild seeds
Mayan seed guardians and Mennonite farmers are working to recognize their interdependence—with each other and with the land.
Where God waits in line
In 2019, Cristina Rathbone immersed herself in a tent camp at the border in Juárez, Mexico.
The missing head of Pancho Villa
What does the stolen skull of a Mexican revolutionary have to do with my friend and me, living in Colorado a century after his death?
Coffee justice in Mexico
Café Justo’s alternative to the fair trade model keeps the means of production—and most of the profit—in the local community.
Border encounters
The US-Mexico border is rich with ordinary life—not just the sort of stories amplified by political rhetoric.
Joel Agee’s novel of childhood wonder and terror
Fantastical things surround six-year-olds everywhere.
One woman’s mission to create a thru-hiking trail in Mexico
“The most magical part of thru-hiking is the community that we share.”
How will history judge Latin American churches’ COVID response?
Likely with both praise and blame.
Mixtec people and their voices
Behind Roma is a complex history of indigenous lives and faiths.
Communion at the border wall in Tijuana
What does it mean to worship in the middle of a wound?
On patrol at the border
When Francisco Cantú took a job as a border patrol agent, he didn’t consider the cost to his humanity.
A visit to the border with the New Sanctuary Coalition
In Tijuana, we witnessed the resilience and humanity of the migrant movement.
In Roma, Alfonso Cuarón portrays life amid Mexico’s class divides
In Cuarón’s film, both love and violence come in waves.
The U.S.-Mexico border, where migrants are hunted
What does it do to the body and spirit to be preyed upon constantly?
Catholic, Aztec Mexico
In the 500 years since Catholicism came to Mexico, it has profoundly shaped and been shaped by the indigenous culture.
On the other side: An electrician shines shoes in Tijuana
"I went to college," the man said. "I got one more year, then I go over there and start working."
Missing in Mexico: The search for Central American migrants
In a caravan of 45 people, mostly mothers looking for their disappeared children, Santos del Socorro Rojas was one of the lucky ones.