Why in the world would we be posting a bunch of food pics first thing on a Monday morning? Because these are some of the meals I was...

These are busy days at The Off Ramp! We've got so much going on we can barely keep it all straight! So, assuming you're not paying as...

by Christen One year ago, I traveled to Chiapas, Mexico. My job was to explore, on behalf of The Off Ramp, the possibility of a new...

Human trafficking is a 9.5 billion-dollar industry. That is more than Nike, Starbucks, and Google combined. And the pandemic has only...

An often overlooked consequence of the pandemic is the plight of refugees across the globe. Many more of them are in need of emergency...

If you are like me, you are ZOOMED OUT! These days of pandemic have meant that we are constantly online trying to work and/or connect...

Do you remember Vero, the talented young weaver? Last summer, we met her and some of her friends in Chiapas, Mexico and offered her a...

I have known Missy Ward Angalla since she began her service with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship more than ten years ago. I have a...

World Refugee Day is this Saturday, June 20. Originally we had planned on big events, both in Atlanta and in Washington, DC. We are of...

The protests resulting from George Floyd’s asphyxiation by a white police officer arose just as COVID-19 measures were being loosened...

Our face masks have arrived and are being worn by displaced people all along the US-Mexico border, a tangible image of the love that so...

Vulnerability, according to the dictionary, is a state of being exposed to the possibility of harm—physical or emotional. Like many of...

(written by Nell late Monday evening) Today has been such a weird day…like every day since the beginning of March hasn’t been weird. But...

You may recall that back in early January we made a trip to Juarez, Mexico on the Texas/Mexico border. The Off Ramp went to meet a group...

To say that our hearts broke when we had to tell the refugees who work for Threads by Nomad that the studio would close would be an...

We met Munir about two weeks after his arrival in the United States. A team of volunteers was delivering food baskets to newly arrived...

From Christen: In times of uncertainty we realize that two things that are apparently opposite can both be true. For example, personally,...

Yes, things definitely are different and we are doing things in different ways. Nonetheless, we continue to address the needs of the...

It has been about ten days since we sent out the email detailing our face mask project. (If you didn't get that email for some reason,...

Haydar's last day in the studio was yesterday. Moving forward, he and Munir (and potentially others) will begin working from home as they...