Denise Altvater serves as coordinator as the Wabanaki Youth Program in Maine.

Editor's note: Larry White is the founder of AFSC's Hope Lives for Lifers project, which helps people incarcerated navigate long prison sentences. The project is based on White's survivor's manual of the same name, which he began working on while serving 32 years in prison. 

The biblical story should remind us of migrants today seeking shelter to protect themselves and their families.

This weekend in San Diego and Tijuana, I gathered with hundreds at Friendship Park, which spans both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. We came together for the 24th annual Posada Without Borders, to remember those who lost their lives crossing the border, and to call for humane and just immigration policies.

“My faith is tested frequently, because I want to believe in people.” 

Over the past year, AFSC's Acting in Faith, News & Commentary, and Media Uncovered blogs have explored racial justice, immigrant rights, mass incarceration, and other issues to help people working for social change in their communities, across the country, and around the world. Here are our top 10 most popular blog posts published in 2017:

Ron Jenkins is a professor of theater at Wesleyan University and teaches regularly as a visiting professor of religion and the arts at the Yale Divinity School, Institute of Sacred Music. He has facilitated theater workshops in prisons in Italy, Indonesia, and the U.S.

Denise Altvater serves as coordinator as AFSC's Wabanaki Youth Program in Maine.

This week, the news has been dominated by Congressional efforts to pass a tax bill that would give billions of dollars in tax breaks to the wealthy, while paving the way for austerity measures that would further harm poor and working people. Here’s what we’re reading to learn more: