Author: Nicholas Tangen

Nicholas Tangen is a writer and a congregational organizer in Minneapolis, MN. He currently serves as the Minister of Faith in Community at University Lutheran Church of Hope near the University of Minnesota.

Christ at the Border: Finding Courage to Resist in a Theology of the Cross

[1] Johana Medina Leon was taken into ICE custody in El Paso, TX after presenting herself to border security to request asylum. Leon, a trans woman, was facing violence and persecution in her home country of El Salvador and believed that the US would offer her the kind of protection and security she needed to […]