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.
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 Ivy Grimes
Whatever you believe about the Biblical roles of men and women in society, if you’ve spent much time in a church singles group, you might agree with me that they’re typically not hot spots of healthy dating activity.
By Sarah Withrow King
One day at the very end of 2016, my family and I drove from Philadelphia, PA to Norfolk, VA to have lunch and spend a few precious hours with some of our dearest friends, who live now in the Midwest.
By Stefie Dominguez
Being fully known and truly loved should be a central component of Christian community. But far too many sexual minorities in the church have risked opening themselves up—in the hope of being fully known—and not experienced being truly loved.
By Francesca Debora Nuzzolese
I am in a van with five teen girls and a house mom from the New Life Center (NLC) in Chang Rai, Thailand. We are going to a small rural village bordering Myanmar to visit the family of Mauy, age 14.
By Stephen Mattson
Most Evangelical churches in America follow a pretty predictable formula regarding their service structures, order, and the way things are run and facilitated.
First, there’s going to be someone designated to meet you upon arrival and make you feel welcome at the church—a greeter, usher, or maybe even a deacon who is responsible for hospitality and processing visitors.
By Jim Baton
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas—bombs, angry mobs, church invasions.
Welcome to Indonesia.
Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim nation. Its constitution supports pluralism and commits the nation to protecting the rights of minority religions, including Christianity; but the Christmas season frequently becomes a platform for a small number of extremists to express their opposition to Christians.
By Katie Tan
Christmas: a time of giving, of family, of warmth and kindness. A time of hope! And yet, I find myself floundering in despair.
Aleppo. Yemen. Turkey. Berlin. Zurich. Cairo. Myanmar.
By Gillian Marchenko
The holiday season typically means people get more of everything; more food, more gift giving, more parties and visits. For families who have children with special needs, the holidays usually mean more challenges and less inclusion.
By Matt Curcio
If you haven’t heard yet, Donald Trump will take office in January 2017. Some of those reading this voted for him, some of you are still reeling from his win. I am not here to stretch out those discussions any further.
By Richard Bauman
Driving through the supermarket parking lot I almost ran over a woman hurrying from the store to her car. I had made a mistake: I was looking to the left and turning right when she charged out of the store, pushing an overflowing shopping cart almost directly in front of my car.
By Melissa Helmbrecht
’Tis the season for giving—toy donations, coat drives, food closets. Salvation Army bells are ringing all across America. According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, almost a quarter of all charitable donations in a given year are made between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.
By Todd Lake
What is it about white evangelicals that makes us long for an earlier Golden Age? The problem is not new. Over two millennia ago, the author of Ecclesiastes had to admonish, “Do not say, ‘Why were the old days better than these?’”
A dangerous nostalgia is washing over much of the white evangelical world, and the election of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States is one of the consequences.
By Derek Kaser
Can people get naked at your church? Can they bare everything and still be accepted without hesitation?
Fear not—I’m not suggesting we should make room for streakers at church. I’m talking about emotional nakedness.
By Drew Jackson
God made a covenant with Abram, promising him a land and innumerable descendants. The problem, however, was that he and his wife Sarai were old, well beyond the age of humanly being able to conceive.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
A couple weeks ago I met up with six Oriented to Love (OTL) dialogue alums who had agreed to model loving dialogue for a group of Eastern University students. We’d been invited by the university’s director of student life, as part of their “Perspectives” series, which features presentations on divisive topics.
By Nicole T. Walters
The day before my daughter started kindergarten we drove as a family to a silent school, where nearly one thousand students would enter the next day. We walked around the playgrounds and the bus loading zones as we prayed for the students that would spend much of the next year of their lives there.
CSA is a group of Christian scholar-activists, stirring the imagination for a fuller expression of Christian faithfulness and a more just society.
Copyright Christians for Social Action at the Sider Center of Eastern University Privacy Policy
1300 Eagle Road, St. Davids, PA 19087 csa@eastern.edu
Web Design by Dayspring