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

The Idolatry of “Christian” Nationalism

By Stephen Mattson

This article was originally published by Red Letter Christians and originally run on the CSA website in March of 2021.

Christian Nationalism is a form of self-righteousness. It’s a spirituality that blends Colonialism and Manifest Destiny.

The Idolatry of “Christian” Nationalism

By Stephen Mattson

This article was originally published by Red Letter Christians and originally run on the CSA website in March of 2021.

Christian Nationalism is a form of self-righteousness. It’s a spirituality that blends Colonialism and Manifest Destiny.

20 Minute Takes – Janna Louie: AAPI Voters, Faith & Politics

By Janna Louie

Season 6, Episode 12

This week on 20 Minute Takes, Nikki talks with Rev. Janna Louie, co-founder of the Coalition for Asian American and Pacific Islander Churches (CAAPIC). In this episode, they discuss the complex historical dynamics that affect Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters, and the work that CAAPIC does to encourage AAPI Christians to show up as engaged citizens who participate robustly in the democratic process here in the United States.

An Antichrist Around Every Corner

By Rick Barry

Presidential campaigns have a long, storied history of character attacks. Candidates have been called bastards, drunkards and moral lepers. But there’s one incredibly specific allegation that gets levied against presidential candidates more and more often in the social media era: “antichrist.”

When people on my Facebook feed started panicking about whether President Obama was the Antichrist (a panic common enough that it made it into The Onion), it was still novel to me.

Memory and Sacrament: A Theologian’s Relationship to Scripture

By David de Leon

I am not a Bible scholar. In fact, the running joke for people in my field (systematic theology) is that we have absolutely no idea what to do with scripture. So when the opportunity to lead a Bible study at my church presented itself this past spring, I surprised myself and jumped at the opportunity.

20 Minute Takes – Jesse Rudy: Widows, Orphans, and Land Theft in Uganda

By Nikki Toyama-Szeto

Season 6, Episode 10

This week on 20 Minute Takes, Nikki talks with Jesse Rudy. Trained as an attorney, Jesse is the founder and CEO of Redeem International, a Christian faith-based nonprofit that protects some of the world’s most vulnerable widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.

The Nature of Gospel Hope

By CSA Team

What does it mean to have hope—real hope? Gospel hope? And what does hope look like when we are in the midst of questionable, unsettling, or unsure times?

Is hope naïve?

Reflections from a Satisfied Goldilocks

By Kristyn Komarnicki

In April, my husband and I accepted an offer for our home of 25 years. Over the next 60 days, we spent almost every free hour going through what we’d collected over that quarter century.

Christian Nationalism: A Mission Field or an Enemy?

By Caleb Campbell

This is excerpted from Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor, by Caleb Campbell.
For me one of the most painful revelations of 2020 was that many within the American church were not placing their ultimate hope in Jesus but were instead buying the false promises of Christian nationalism—a movement that calls Christian followers to take government power at all costs to advance their preferred way of being in the world.

20 Minute Takes – Rick Barry: Politics & Civic Discipleship

By Rick Barry

Season 6, Episode 6

This week, Nikki talks with Rick Barry, Executive Director of the Center for Christian Civics. Rick helps Christians think about what it looks like for their communities to show up in the public square, and in this episode he helps us to wrap our minds around what civic discipleship looks like and helps break down the variety of ways people understand “politics” today.