Strangers in the Province of Joy: Practicing Radical Hospitality on the US - Mexico Border

“Recounts a reservoir of community, ingenuity, and commitment. . . . JUST WHAT WE NEED in this moment.” —Simone Campbell, SSS, author, A Nun on the Bus


This is the story of America writ small—a nation founded by immigrants and its shifting, oft-contradictory attitudes toward them. Since 1978, El Paso’s Annunciation House has welcomed over half a million people: migrants and refugees, doing what humans have always done to find sustenance and safety, and volunteers seeking meaning and purpose...