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For Christ Was Born in a Refugee Camp

By Ed Simon | December 19, 2019

An icon must be thought of as a divine portal in its own right, charged with the transcendent. That makes it all the more powerful when an icon explicitly condemns a contemporary injustice.

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Family Lines

By Jolene Latimer | May 15, 2017

Chasing ghosts in Greece.

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Aleppo Is Us

By Ashley Makar | September 11, 2016

With the recent “What is Aleppo?” gaffe by Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, the news cycle has long moved on from the child whose image quickly became an icon of…

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Holding Light

By Ashley Makar | May 19, 2016

Waging peace on terror, with refugees.

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Praying with Refugees

By Ashley Makar | September 18, 2015

A sermon preached at Trinity on the Green, August 23, 2015

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Religious Baggage

By Ashley Makar | October 29, 2014

An excerpt from Ashley’s new e-book You Were Strangers: Dispatches from Exile

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Leaves of Ash

By Ashley Makar | April 15, 2014

You forget and then remember: you’re dying.

At the edge of the West Bank village of Faqqua, an Israeli soldier watches from the other side of the Green Line. Photo by Bryan MacCormack of Left in Focus.

The Hourglass

By Nathan Schneider | January 30, 2013

What I learned about empire in the West Bank.

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Syrian Refugees in Jordan

By Becky Garrison | December 12, 2012

When I first traveled to Jordan in 2007 for ten days as part of a contingency of religion writers, I  became aware of how Jordan became a place of welcome…