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*Below is an excerpt from my recent submission to the Lausanne Freedom and Justice Network Magazine 2026 Spring Edition. The theme for this edition is: Polycentric faith: Voices, contexts, and Practices Shaping Christianity Beyond the West. For brevity, the entire essay is not posted below, but if you are interested in reading the essay in its entirety, feel free to reach out! A Story Woven Through Generations I am the great granddaughter of immigrants and migration has been

What is this connection between rest and doing work for the Lord or partnering with him in this work? Today's blog is a bit different from other blog posts, but something I wanted to share with you all as I'm in this process of naming my own limitations. It's something I'm reminded of often in this work. It's the kind of work that has endless need and limited resources. Before my day even begins I wake up to emails and texts from colleagues and strangers about all things rela

A prayer of Lament to El Roi, the God who Sees. Lord, surely you see the fathers and mothers across Iran who grieve for their children, the young who went out into the streets to protest for a better future and never came home. Lord, you weep with families watching their loved ones torn from their communities, accused of crimes they did not commit. You weep with those who fled violence and persecution, now threatened with return to the places they escaped. Lord, you hear

Last time I shared about the crisis in Sudan. The famine, ethnic cleansing, and the violence that has made this the world's largest humanitarian crisis. And I shared how it's led me to desperate, honest questions: God, where are you? God, do you care? In that place of frustration, I encountered the framework of lament from the Psalms, a journey that begins with calling on God and complaining, honestly bringing our pain to him. I shared in the last post how freeing it was to d

Sudan. The scale of violence, particularly in the capital of North Darfur, El Fasher, has reached horrific levels. It's the world's worst humanitarian crisis and it brings me to these questions: God where are you in the midst of this suffering?

"What surprised me most was the individual stories of all the refugees...a lot of them have nowhere to go." I read this reflection from a twelfth grader, a few days ago after I had spoken in their class. This is what happens when we move from headlines to human beings. When we stop talking about refugees as a ‘crisis,’ and start talking about real people (parents, teenagers, children, grandparents) with homes, dreams, and communities. People who flee their homes because they