The Welcome Table

Community Presbyterian Church in Lake City, Colorado, demonstrates "trail magic" by mobilizing nearly 100 volunteers in a tiny town of 432 residents to serve around 1,000 seasonal hikers along the Continental Divide and Colorado Trails. Launched in 2021 by the Rev. Dr. Jason Santos, the church's Trail Hiker Center offers free home-cooked Sunday dinners, daily shuttle rides, foot spas, and volunteer-run laundry, creating a vibrant space of radical hospitality and community for weary...

Throughout her extraordinary life, Dolly Parton bridged divides by grounding her faith in unjudgmental love, a plainspoken "come-as-you-are" spirituality, and a genuine connection to people from all walks of life. Rather than preaching, she put her core beliefs into practice through immense personal philanthropy—funding medical research, disaster relief, local education, and global childhood literacy programs like her Imagination Library. Following her peaceful passing at 80, Parton leaves...

According to a recent Pew Research Center analysis, U.S. refugee admissions have dropped sharply during President Donald Trump’s second term, falling to just over 10,000 in the first ten months of fiscal year 2026 under a record-low admissions ceiling. This decline is accompanied by a dramatic shift in demographics, with South African refugees now accounting for nearly all admissions following an executive order prioritizing Afrikaners. Consequently, the United States has fallen behind Canada...