Reflection I’m grieved, and I also feel a responsibility to speak from proximity.   Some of the people I call friends have walked the refugee and asylum journey firsthand. I’ve sat with those who were forced from their homes—not because they wanted to leave, but because staying was no longer possible. I’ve watched people fight for dignity while carrying grief, hope, and exhaustion all at once. Survival was…

The church has always been most alive when it remembers that the gospel belongs to every people. From the beginning, the Spirit has pushed believers beyond their familiar worlds. The early church in Acts was born multiethnic, multi-lingual, and radically hospitable. That reality still calls to us today.  Look around your own city. In Australia,…