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By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
For me, the summer of 2023 feels like the time when the climate crisis finally became impossible to ignore—which may simply mean that the climate crisis has started to impact me personally in more obvious ways.
This series on Hidden Hunger ran in June 2023. Inspired by the work and leadership of Bread for the World and ahead of the Farm Bill vote in September 2023, our hope is to raise awareness about the ways hunger shows up in different communities.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
More than enough food is currently produced to cover the hunger gap around the globe. Yet hungry people exist in many communities. When people see that, they wonder if God keeps God’s promises.
With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Ron Sider
To read a transcript of this episode, click here.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
In 1998, Ron Sider hired me as a part-time editor for PRISM magazine, Christians for Social Action’s flagship print publication at the time. It was the answer to a fervent prayer of mine, to do meaningful work that would not only integrate my faith but also grow it.
By Ron Sider
I often fail to come even close to the submission and faithfulness prayed for here, but these words represent my desire. I hope you can make these words your sincere longing as well.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
Dear friends,
Dr. Ron Sider, our dear friend and colleague, passed away on Wednesday night, July 27.
Ron died of cardiac arrest, following a hospital stay for treatment for some ongoing health conditions.
By Ron Sider
Several weeks ago, CSA Executive Director Nikki Toyama-Szeto and CSA Founder Ron Sider took part in a 3-day Church and Politics Summit in Kenya designed to create meaningful dialogue between the Christian community and the political marketspace.
By Ron Sider
Dear friends,
I have cancer–a somewhat aggressive form of bladder cancer. Cancer is a scary word, given that about 600,000 Americans die every year of cancer.
Pondering one’s cancer certainly evokes what the Psalmist says about the temporal, transitory nature of our life here on this lovely planet: “As for mortals, their days are like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more” (Ps.
By Ron Sider
Evangelicals for Social Action began with the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern written over the Thanksgiving weekend in 1973. About 50 evangelical leaders
By Ron Sider
Ways to begin a conversation across deep political divides that lead to real listening and dialogue rather than anger and silence
By Ron Sider
The coronavirus makes this a scary, dangerous time. None of us knows what our situation will be in two or six weeks. That is frightening.
Of course we know we need to avoid the panicmongers and listen to our best health professionals.
By Jon Carlson
“Did Jesus mean to teach his disciples never to kill?” This question—or, if we want to frame it in the present tense, “Does Jesus ever want his followers to kill?”—forms the crux of Ron Sider’s new book on violence and faith.
By Ron Sider
I often say: “If you are 80 years old, love the Lord, love your wife, love your work, and your doctor says you are in good health, does it get any better than that?”
By Ron Sider
At a conference in March 2017, the Lausanne Movement and Business as Mission Global issued the important, helpful, and much-needed Wealth Creation Manifesto. While this manifesto is reflective
By Ron Sider
I’m not a social activist.
I’m a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Savior, and Lord of the universe.
In the inner-city congregation where my family worshiped for more than a decade, the choir often sang a song I still love:
By Dr. Ron Sider
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger started as a sermon at a little Baptist church in Connecticut in 1966. Although the initial response was largely positive, not everyone liked it! One group of critics rushed into print a book with the delightful title: Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt
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