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MLK Day 2021: Consider This An Invitation
A Union Like God’s
Historical Reformer – Lemuel Haynes
ASIA
Hope in the Cracks
When you slow down and begin to parse out the details from the chaotic whole, when you begin to look closely and really see, India hides breathtaking splashes of life in every corner.
Like the Blues: Where Beauty and Suffering Coexist
The juxtaposition of beauty with its opposites is a step toward reconciliation. Louis Stettner’s photographs and Blessy’s life show this.
In the Image: Vietnam Photo Essay
VIETNAMBy Brett HillyardMar 21, 2019When men and women in rural Vietnam lose their sight due to glaucoma and cataracts, many lose a sense of purpose. Simple tasks like cooking and cleaning become impossibilities, and often their ability to provide for their families...
India Photo Essay: Untouched by Time
By Kayla MendezThis video features scenes from our day spent with Gideon in the village as well as scenes from Haridwar. There, thousands of Hindus gathered to worship the Ganges River, in a traditional Hindu ceremony called a Ganga Aarti.Tucked away among the...
Dispatch from Pattaya
By Nations Media“I was in a bar recently and a john told me, ‘Pattaya is where people go to die.’” The bar that Dianna Bautista refers to is one of hundreds in Pattaya’s red light district. These bars are not just bars, but also brothels—places to purchase illicit...
Forty Years a Survivor: A Story of Suffering and Freedom
By Hetta Hansen Joe Kong was qualified on all accounts to be killed by the Khmer Rouge. As an educated, high-ranking government official, he and his young family were targeted by the invading communist party. It was 1970 and the Cambodian genocide had just begun. Joe...
AFRICA
Kissing the Witch Doctor
By Nations MediaI don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park,...
How to Carry Heavy Stories
By Victoria HouserThe first time I read about the Rwandan genocide, it was like walking into a dark theater in the middle of a horror movie when I thought I had bought tickets for a tidy historical documentary. I couldn’t look away. Stories of violence began to...
Precious Kids Center in Kitale, Kenya
By Easton Kawawaki Sammy Hammork visited Kenya for the first time when she was sixteen. Over the following years, she returned to serve children with disabilities during her summer breaks from college. Originally from Southern California, Sammy eventually moved to...
Empowered to Love
By Kayla CervenkaIt was on a Monday that I made the journey through treacherous Kampala traffic and arrived at the Empower-A-Child offices nestled within the city’s maze of roads. I was ushered into an office, a relief from the unrelenting Ugandan heat. I sat gazing...
Alternate Routes: Hospitality
By Megan SextonEditor’s Note: It’s easy to feel overwhelmed or apathetic when faced with the sheer volume of need in our world. Writing a check or volunteering with a local organization are important steps to walking in justice, but they’re not the only steps....
EUROPE
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MIDDLE EAST
Mountains of Silence
Germany By Derrick BillsMar 5, 2019Fog and silence crawl along the landscape of wide plains and lonely trees. My eyes run through the hills to the singular trees standing out in seas of green, looking forlorn yet stalwart. I try my best to imitate them, mimicking...
The Repatriated Missionary
By AnonymousAmerica shields us from suffering and bombards us with pleasure, but the two years I spent with Iranian refugees in Turkey shattered that bubble. Returning from that level of intensity and suffering was—and still is—a challenge. Persian voices ring in my...
“Welcome to Our Boiling Times”
By Nations MediaAfter Mosul's liberation, a monk's view from the monastery Overlooking the Nineveh Plains, fifteen miles from Mosul, a fortress-like monastery clings to the crags of Mount Alfaf. Since 363 AD the structure has watched over the land,...
Dispatch from Iraq
By Nations MediaAfter Sixteen Months, a Reunion with the Rescued In the first volume of Nations Journal we introduced you to Dave Eubank, a former U.S. Army Special Forces and Ranger officer and founder of the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), a humanitarian service movement...
Mark and Jan Foreman Interview: Think Orphan
By Nations MediaThink Orphan, recently sat down for an interview with Mark and Jan Foreman, featured in Nations Foundation film, "Iraq: A Forgotten Hope". Listen to the podcast here for more details about: Why Mark felt led to make the film, “Iraq: The Forgotten...
Unmaking Violence, Waging Peace
By Erica GriffithPhoto by: Janssen Powers By: Erica Griffith A world at peace is a lovely sentiment. Joyful communities doing fulfilling work and caring for one another; no one lacking, violence banished and anger dissipated. But sometimes that’s all it feels like: a...
NORTH AMERICA
Prophetic Imagination: An Interview with Shane Claiborne
Nations Media interviews Shane Claiborne, a Christian activist and author who is a leading figure in the New Monasticism movement.
Breaking Bonds of Silence: An Interview with Bryan Stevenson
A walking tour through Montgomery’s shame: Start on Commerce Avenue, where the name says it all. A main thoroughfare through downtown Montgomery
Historical Reformer: Dorothy Day
In this installment of our historical reformer series, we look to Dorothy Day and her “revolution of the heart.”
“Do Unto Those Downstream”
We are instructed to tend to the earth and keep it, and ecological justice—sanitation included—cannot be separated from that mandate.
Hope Dwells Here
“Jesus took and trained our simple ‘yes’ into the most radical, beautiful decision of our lives.”
Women of Valor: Devon Feldmeth Alchemizes Her Pain for Good
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in our “Women of Valor” series. For the next few months, we will be spotlighting courageous female reformers around the globe and throughout history. We pray that their stories will inspire you, dear reader, to boldly take...
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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