by Kate Berkey | Jan 14, 2022 | Seek Justice. Love Mercy.
This week we received news from our translator that we can’t move forward with translating our book into the tribal language of Karen. If you’re just showing up to the party and already feel confused by this sentence, let me explain. In 2018, I moved to Thailand...
by Kate Berkey | Dec 21, 2021 | Seek Justice. Love Mercy., Stories and Other Things From Chicago
I spend significant time with refugees in my neighborhood. In fact, most of the people we serve are refugees. Often, they come to this country with few possessions but heavy hearts. Most days it feels impossible to hold their stories—to shoulder their burdens, to...
by Kate Berkey | Mar 30, 2021 | Seek Justice. Love Mercy.
Maybe you saw that bizarre video of a middle school PE instructor in Myanmar doing her exercise routine as a pack of black SUVs and military vehicles fill the frame behind her. As she dances, they make hard, fast turns and pull up to a barricade. All of this happens...
by Kate Berkey | Aug 13, 2020 | Seek Justice. Love Mercy., Stumbling to Jesus
I took inspiration for this blog post from Albert Tate’s message at the Global Leadership Summit 2020 about walking with a limp. You can find notes from his session here. Our world is engaged in a lot of tough conversations. We stumble through highly...
by Kate Berkey | Jul 22, 2020 | Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary, Seek Justice. Love Mercy.
I must have started a dozen blog posts before this one took shape. It felt fuzzy at first—at least the words did. But the idea and emotions behind it made my heart beat a little faster and my spirit shout, “Yes! That!” The other posts weren’t bad. Someday they...
by Kate Berkey | Jul 6, 2020 | Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary, Seek Justice. Love Mercy., Stumbling to Jesus
Compassion My heart beats a little faster, and a fire swells in my bones when I hear this word. In these 10 letters, I feel like I can finally describe the voice that keeps me up at night. This has been a season of explosion—a burst of color and sights and...
