Dispatch: All Hail Greece, Land of Exiles
Posted August 5th, 2016
Greece is on the edge in more ways than one, and yet here the refugees come … [Read More...]
Dispatch: Leaving What Was Never Home
Posted August 2nd, 2016
He lost his home. Did he lose the ability to know what home is? [Read More...]
Dispatch: When a Refugee Camp Is Better Than What You Left Behind …
Posted July 26th, 2016
Here are some stories you would not wish on your worst enemy, of people with whom we in fact share a worst enemy: the evil brought by man against man. [Read More...]
Dispatch: Refugees Show Hospitality To Us, Too
Posted July 24th, 2016
“This is a group of friends and family who all grew up together and, once they were adults, decided to live on the same street. And all hell broke loose. ISIS blew their dream to high heaven.” [Read More...]
Dispatch: Tea Helps Refugees Feel Human Again
Posted July 23rd, 2016
There is an improvised wooden sign close to the entrance of the camp that says “Kara Tepe Square.” When I first arrived, it almost looked like dark-humored mockery, pretending that this bunch [Read More...]
Dispatch: Buying Underwear in Turkey Before the Coup
Posted July 22nd, 2016
My trek from island to mainland with Atchison, Kansas, money in my pocket. [Read More...]
Dispatch: Dickens and the Refugees Lost at Sea
Posted July 18th, 2016
True: 99% of the mostly Syrian refugees who head to my camp by boat make it. But now I know what that 1% looks like. [Read More...]
Dispatch: At a Refugee Camp, Jesus Says ‘Feed Them Yourselves’
Posted July 15th, 2016
Sometimes a Gospel passage just rams into you. Other times you ram into it. This experience has been of the latter variety, the rarer of the two in my life. The Catholic [Read More...]