198 Methods of Nonviolent Direct Action Archives

As Many Christians Wrestle with Fatigue and Uncertainty, New Album Storybook Explores What Gospel Hope Sounds Like

By CSA Staff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The seven-song project grew out of a year of listening to stories from organizations working for justice, creation care, and community renewal.

March 23, 2026 — In a cultural moment marked by rapid news cycles, political tension, environmental crisis, and widespread exhaustion, many Christians are quietly asking what hope actually looks — and sounds — like today.

Waymakers: Claire Kretzschmar

By Christina Ray Stanton

Sporting bright pink tutus over their hand-me-down clothes, eight teenage girls wobbled through unfamiliar ballet poses in a massive orphanage just outside of Guatemala City. The girls giggled as they mimicked the moves of their teacher, Claire Kretzschmar, never realizing they were following one of the world’s top ballerinas across a bleak basketball court.

Waymakers: Tiffany Ouyang

By Christina Stanton

When Tiffany Ouyang was growing up in Plano, Texas, she pored over glamour magazines and studied red-carpet wardrobes, dreaming of one day influencing the fashion world. And she has succeeded—but not the way she ever imagined.

To Set a Bigger Table, Make Your Preaching Multivocal

By Brenna Rubio

Someone I grabbed coffee with recently told me: “When I first came to City Church Long Beach, I thought it seemed pretty normal, like any other church. I mean, there was a welcome table, there were chairs, there was music.

Waymakers: Tara Flynn

By Christina Stanton
Growing up as the daughter of Irish immigrants in the Bronx, Tara Flynn knew she wanted to carve her own path. But she never dreamed that path would one day lead her to one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the country.

Embracing the Apocalypse

By Andre Henry

As a boy, my greatest fear was that I’d live to see the end of the world—a fear I’d absorbed by spending time with my grandma. Mumma kept her TV on all day, but she only watched a Christian station called the Trinity Broadcasting Network.

Waymakers: Ben Virgo

By Christina Stanton

Editor’s note: In April we’re running a series called “Waymakers” to highlight stories about contemporary Christians engaged in unique partnerships and and justice work. Look for a new one each Monday this month.

In the Presence of My Enemies

By Joel Briggs

I think every painter labors long, meticulous hours for those little encounters, brief as they may be, when their work surprises and disrupts the viewer. The piece of art suddenly seizes the viewer, who exclaims something like, “This image!

What Are Christians For?

By Jake Meador
The Christian community should see the decision to move closer together with other Christians as a way of loving the places that we share together, of serving the good of our non-Christian neighbors in that place, and even of making the place itself healthier.

Pray for Yemen

By Stephen Mattson

Yemen is a country suffering from a brutal, 7-year, ongoing military conflict. The violence escalated after 2010, when Shia minorities staged a series of rebellions. These occurred within an already unstable environment due to corruption, bitter religious and partisan animosity, and political upheaval.

Business & Justice: Empowering the Refugee Workforce to Strengthen Our Local Economies

By Chris Chancey
After a year of learning from their refugee neighbors in a resettlement community in the Atlanta metro area. Chris and Sarah Chancey launched Amplio Recruiting to help great companies hire dependable employees from the refugee workforce.

Webinar: “Members of the Same Body”—A conversation with theologically diverse LGB Christians

With Juan Pablo Herrera, Beth Carlson-Malena, Elizabeth Delgado Black, and Grant Hartley
Listen in on a powerful conversation among four queer-identifying Jesus-followers, two who hold a more traditional understanding of sexuality and two who hold a more progressive understanding.

Stations of the Cross

By Shane Claiborne

Editor’s note: This post was originally shared by our friends at Red Letter Christians. We pray this project by several men on Tennessee’s death row will encourage you as you reflect deeply on the sacrifice of Jesus and what this means for all of us—including those who are, as Shane says below, “condemned to die.”
I am beyond excited to share this with you.

Business & Justice: Restoration and Self-Sufficiency After Prison

By Louise Wasilewski
Meet Louise Wasilewski, CEO and co-founder of Acivilate, a social enterprise dedicated to transforming second chances for people leaving prison, women leaving domestic violence, and those struggling with homelessness

Red Lip Theology: A Conversation with Candice Marie Benbow

By Candice Marie Benbow
We talk with Candice Marie Benbow, a theologian, essayist, columnist, baker, and educator whose work gives voice to Black women’s shared experiences of faith, healing, and wholeness.

This Here Flesh: A Conversation with Cole Arthur Riley

By Cole Arthur Riley
We talk with Cole Arthur Riley, creator of Black Liturgies, a space for Black spiritual words of liberation, lament, rage, and rest. Her new book, “This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us,” is published by Convergent Books, a division of Penguin Random House.

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