Library

Filter by Topic
198 Methods of Nonviolent Direct Action
Advent
Animal Welfare
Book Excerpt
Book Reviews
Church
Compassion & Relief
CSA History
Current Events
Disability Advocacy
Economic Justice
Environmental Justice and Creation Care
Faith & Public Life
Film Reviews
Foreign Policy
Gender Justice
Heroes of the Faith
Holistic Ministry
Human Rights
Human Sexuality
Immigration and Seeking Refuge
Interview
Lent
LGBTQIA
Mass Incarceration
Nonviolence & Peacemaking
Oriented to Love
Podcasts
Politics and Public Policy
Prayer
Racial Justice
Reconciliation & Dialogue
Ron Sider
Simple Living
Social Justice
Spiritual Formation
Suffering
Filter by List
Black/African American Authors
Covid-19 Pandemic
Women Authors
Women of Color Authors

Subscribe to the CSA Newsletter
CSA’s free weekly publication, a carefully curated collection of original articles at the intersection of spiritual formation and social action.

Biblical Feminism and the Chicago Declaration: A Women’s History Month Special

By Lē Weaver
The Chicago Declaration was intended to serve as a framework for concrete evangelical engagement with the pressing social issues of the day. Christian Feminism Today (known originally as the Evangelical Women’s Caucus) came into being as a direct result of that Thanksgiving workshop, and with it a movement known as biblical feminism was born. 

Ron Sider: Embodiment of Holistic Faith

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.

Ron Sider: A Prayer Instead of Politics

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.

Ron Sider Goes Home

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. 

A Personal Update from Our Founder

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.

New Name, Same Mission

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

Ron Sider: Finding Strength in a Time of Pandemic

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.

I’m Not a Social Activist

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: