News & Stories
Lately I have been musing on how often the Christmas story describes people being displaced from their homes. The most obvious example, and the subject of countless Christmas pageants, is the Holy Family leaving Nazareth to trek 90 miles south to Bethlehem. It couldn’t have been easy. The road was not always safe, Mary was…
Read More
A Prayer Practice for the New Year
Start the new year with a prayer of Examen, a prayer practice to deepen your communion with God, your compassion for yourself and others and even change the world.
Read More
Living Outside the Box: A Story of Transformation (VIDEO)
“Thinking outside of the box” is a phrase often used to praise imaginative and bold ideas. When we need to solve a problem but there’s no clear path forward, our minds are stretched and we are forced to imagine a better way. But what would it look like to not just think outside the box, but to LIVE outside of the box as well?
Read More
Change That Lasts Through Mutual Transformation
by Amber Díaz Pearson // At World Relief Durham, we often talk about mutual transformation as a central goal for…
Read More
World Relief Durham’s Efforts for Immigrant Equity
This summer, Adam Clark, World Relief Durham’s Executive Director, wrote a piece for local nonprofit partner Built2Last Innovations Lab‘s quarterly…
Read More
A Biblical Perspective on Immigration
by Hunter Davis // “According to a LifeWay Research poll in 2022, just 20% of evangelical Christians say their views…
Read More
Was Jesus a Refugee?
“Jesus Was a Refugee.” Recently, I’ve seen that message all over — on billboards, TV ads, on t-shirts, debated on…
Read More