Soul Searching Through the South

Essay writer and illustrator Martha Park considers faith, family, climate change, and community in her debut collection. Debut writer Martha Park is stirring a pot of rice in Roanoke, Va., when her father tells her over the phone that he is retiring as pastor of a United Methodist church in Memphis, Tenn. “I couldn’t haveContinue reading “Soul Searching Through the South”

Behind Every Purchase, a Person

I was that early ’90s college kid who had the Think Global, Act Local bumper sticker haphazardly stuck to my dorm room door. Back then, it was a vague concept I was only beginning to grasp. Globalism itself was still early in its wide-reaching transformation of how we eat and shop and work. By the timeContinue reading “Behind Every Purchase, a Person”