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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 David Williams
On a recent Saturday afternoon I was at my friend John’s home where I sat across the table from his son, Frances, who has just turned five. Between us lay a chess board, all the pieces standing in their rightful places.
By Tom Sine
The world many of us grew up in is not the same world as today. Parents, youth workers, and educators are unconsciously equipping the next generation for life in a world that no longer exists.
By Merrick Korach
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on August 18, 2016 that it will no longer outsource federal prisons to private prison companies, because many of these privately operated prisons have failed to provide adequate mental health and medical attention to their detainees.
By Sarah Withrow King
January 17, 2017 marked the 40th anniversary of the first execution since the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the use of the death penalty in Gregg v. Georgia. In that forty years, 1,443 individuals have been put to death in the U.S.
From CSA
CSA is hosting a 1.5-day practical and inspirational workshop on faith-rooted organizing by award-winning world-changer Alexia Salvatierra—and you won’t want to miss it! Faith-rooted organizing brings God’s people together to create systemic change in our communities, contributing all of the gifts—from our deepest wells to broader movements for justice.
By Katie Tan
Last month, I wrote about how I was overcome with despair at the evil in the world. Today, I am overcome by the evil within us—in America, in the actions of the new administration, in We the People.
By Tyler Watson
I used to have an instrumental view of prayer.
By Sue Gilmore
It is January 21st, 2017, the day after the election of Donald J. Trump as our 45th president; it is the day of the Women’s March on Washington. I wanted to go, and was all set to get up before dawn to make my way to the capital, when I heard there would also be a March in Philadelphia.
By Sarah Withrow King
Full disclosure: I’m starting to write this article with Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna’ Take It” blaring through my earbuds. “We’ll fight the powers that be” indeed.
I did not watch the inauguration of the 45th POTUS.
By Micky ScottBey Jones
I want to invite you to dinner.
Yes. You.
All of you.
Not at my house…well, not all at the same time, at least. I am inviting you to dinner at your house, in your neighborhood, or somewhere in your city during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
By Elrena Evans
O Lord our Governor, whose glory is in all the world: We commend this nation to your merciful care.
God, we come to you today and plead your mercy. We lament the arrogance that keeps us blind to injustice and allows hatred to flourish unchecked.
By Amy Simpson
In a press conference the day after a deadly shooting in the Ft. Lauderdale airport, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler summarized the FBI’s response to the shooter’s November cry for help: “We’re a country of laws, and they operate within them.” She was referring to the federal officials who initially took a gun away from Esteban Santiago in Anchorage, Alaska, then returned the gun to his possession a month later.
By Sarah Withrow King
People aren’t monsters. They have stories.
Christians for Social Action has recently joined the board of Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), an organization that works to encourage U.S.
By Kim Nicole
I believe there are two types of people in this world—those who take life as it comes, and those who have a plan for every single moment.
I’m the latter.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
This month marks the 154th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Lincoln in 1863, in the middle of his nation’s bloody civil war. Although woefully limited in its reach—it declared freedom for slaves in the “rebellious states” but ignored slavery in other areas of the country—the Proclamation was a critical turning point for the nation.
By AnaYelsi Sanchez
My entire life has been an exercise in chasing after the fulfillment of being known.
I was born in Caracas, Venezuela but have lived in the Latin diaspora since I was three years old.
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