Stories
The good news is … revealed through nonviolence ~ Will Clancy
I care about politics. Like, a lot. I’ve spent the last four years of my life studying it. So, it is not surprising that when I read the scripture for…
Staff Transition at Pres House: A special announcement from Ginger Morgan, PhD
March 26, 2026 Dear Pres House Community, In the summer of 2012 my family and I packed up a house in Colorado Springs, CO and moved to Madison so I…
Preparing for Faithful Resistance: Discipleship in a Time of State Violence
In the Pres House dojo, a space dedicated to fully embodied spiritual formation, there are images by Kelly Latimore of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s headshots when he was…
The Traditions of Man ~ Marie Meyer
Most days on our BWAP trip began with a devotional from the gospel of Mark, shared with members of Frontera de Cristo and our delegation from Pres House, and this…
Promised? ~ Carson Nott
In 2020, I spent nearly the entire year playing video games indoors, and occasionally half-heartedly doing schoolwork. I’d spend my day not really thinking much of anything, just attending the…
a wall in the desert ~ Katie Twist
I. i wish i counted the steps from water to wall. or the traces of travelers i held in my hands (bottles, cans, all drifting in sand). but the numbers…
Two Walls ~ Flora Stolzenburg
The night we arrived in Douglas we were taken to the US side of the border. Immediately we were met with a tall metal wall with four spiraled lines of…
The Cross ~ Dawn Drake
Over the course of the trip, we had heavily interacted with one fact: many migrants die crossing the Sonoran Desert. This fact was unavoidable. The border wall, designed specifically to…
The Challenge of Loving Others ~ Aaliyah Golden-Whitehead
You know what’s challenging? Loving others. It’s really hard. Why? Well for me, loving others means caring for them—offering aid, whether that be food, water, weather-appropriate clothes, a resting place,…