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By Kristyn Komarnicki
Love in the midst of discomfort
Love your God, love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets rest on these two commands…
Leap of Faith is a full-length documentary from Nicholas Ma and Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) featuring pastors who commit to meeting for a year to look for a path to unity in the midst of polarized times.
By Sarah Withrow King
I was a Christian long before I started advocating for animals. And though I’ve scoured the Bible looking for something like “Blessed are the vegans, for they shall inherit the tofu,” I’ve not found a direct blessing of my plant-based life from Jesus.
From Prayers for the Holy Land
What images come to mind when you hear the words “little town of Bethlehem”? Idyllic, holy scenes of Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus alongside friendly barnyard animals?
For a North American living in Bethlehem, this cozy scene feels like a childhood dream.
By Maryada Vallet
She walks the dusty trails until her ankles swell and her back pulsates in pain. Her womb, distended in the eighth month of pregnancy, slows her down, yet also gives her an almost transcendent determination.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
At the launch of CSA’s PrayforDREAMers campaign last month, when DACA recipient Vanessa Upegui-Seel spoke at Eastern University about her experience as an undocumented immigrant who was bought to the US at the age of 12, I learned three things I hadn’t known before:
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By Matt Curcio
People with disabilities make up the largest minority group in the US. As many as one in five Americans have a permanent and life-altering disability.
Yet, more often than not, we are left out of conversations in both the public and faith-based sectors.
By Joe Tatum
What we do behind the scenes often shows our truest intentions, especially when advocating for the marginalized. The film Roman J. Israel, Esq. (directed by Dan Gilroy, in theaters now) opens with its namesake writing a legal briefing in which both the plaintiff, and the defendant, are himself.
By John Backman
We all cherish the picture of Jesus eating with the “disreputables”—the tax collectors and prostitutes and other sinners. But what do we do when the offensive offend us?
By John Perkins
Sometimes I look at the Bible and think all God is about is justice: “For the Lord loves justice” (Psalm 37:28); “I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy” (Psalm 140:12); “For the Lord is a God of justice” (Isaiah 30:18); “What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8).
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
“Where do you find the courage?” one woman asked from the front row. She posed the question to Ruby Sales, a historic leader in the Civil Rights movement. Ruby Sales began her work for the movement in the South, in a time when it was dangerous for her even to buy a soda from a whites-only convenience store.
By Ron Sider
The tax bills currently being rushed through Congress are huge and complex. And the details keep changing. I am not a professional economist specializing on tax law, so I do not claim infallibility for my comments!
By Elrena Evans
In some ways, Auggie Pullman is just like any other fifth-grade boy. He loves Star Wars. He rides his bike. He plays XBox.
But in other ways, Auggie—the main protagonist of R.J.
By Kelley Nikondeha
As parents of children once orphaned by disease and poverty, my husband Claude and I are familiar with the kind of injustice that creates vulnerable children. Our commitment to shalom for communities led us to engage both in the holy work of adoption, and in community development work in Burundi so that these families would never be tempted or tricked into relinquishing their children.
By Melanie Springer Mock
This fall, when I began reading Benjamin Corey’s excellent new book Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith, my home state was burning. Forest fires were swiftly destroying parts of the iconic Columbia Gorge in Oregon, the ash floating westward to cover my car, over 50 miles away.
By R.H.
I Was An Undocumented Immigrant
It is a curious thing, the border—a fence, a few feet high, made of scrap metal, and with two different realities on each side. It divides everything, and it divides nothing.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
Another day, another mass shooting in America. While I numbly struggle once again with the senselessness of the latest tragedy and the hopelessness I feel in the face of a gun lobby that is willing to
By Aaron Foltz
Against Enormous Odds, an Activist Fights Fracking in His Hometown
In many ways Williamsport, Pa., (pop. 29,304) is the perfect American city. Nestled into a river valley, it’s the town where Little League was born.
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