Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders

Borders are places of collision. People and politics, compassion and cruelty, law and lawlessness, hope and despair, idealism and ideology, life and death—all collide at the border. But these collisions have human faces. North and south, rich and poor, nuns and nones, desperation and courage—a spirit draws all these poles together and a spirituality animates their encounter.

Precious Precarity examines the spirituality that emerges between life and death, when vulnerable raced migrants must...