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By David Schmidt
“Pray that your flight be not in the winter…”
It was dusk when I reached the Casa del Peregrino shelter in Mexico City, and the winter chill had already set in.
By Phileena Heuertz
Years ago, my friends Jeelan and Nazreen gave me the gift of physical sight. Jeelan was born into an Urdu-speaking folk Muslim family in the heart of South India’s Tamil Nadu. Nazreen was born into a progressive Pakistani-Malay Muslim family.
By Joe Tatum
Steve McQueen and Gillian Flynn’s new film Widows is equal parts character study, heist film, and political thriller. Based on the 1983 series of the same name, Widows centers on four women who become widowed after their partners die during a heist gone wrong.
By Karen González
Every year from December 16 to 24, Las Posadas begin in many Latin American countries and immigrant communities in the U.S. Roughly translated, posadas means “inn” or “shelter.” Las Posadas recalls the events in Luke’s Gospel leading up to Jesus’ birth.
By Jonathan Brooks
At Canaan we are trying to live into our tagline “the church where love makes the difference,” which we have found to be a very dangerous statement. Christians often tell people we love them before we have ever lived with, listened to, or learned from them.
By Tim Mascara
On December 4, 1959, Soviet artist Evgeny Vuchetich presented a bronze statue to the United Nations, titledLet Us Beat Our Swords into Plowshares. The sculpture is an image of a man beating a sword into a plowshare, meant to symbolize humankind’s desire to end war—the desire to take the tools of violence and war and turn them into tools for peace, tools to benefit humankind rather than harm it.
By Ethan Tan
The white Christmas Bing Crosby dreams of was never mine. I grew up in Malaysia, a Christian, a Chinese. In a Muslim-Malay majority country, I was a minority among minorities.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
My sister is always the best gift-giver in our family. Mention some random interest, and she’ll remember, find it, and wrap it up for you to open on Christmas morning.
By John M. Perkins
Our country claims to “hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Chief among these rights is life, but these days we are asking a lot of questions about life: What are lives really worth?
By Al Tizon
How can a baby born during oppressed times in impoverished conditions save the world?It can’t, unless that baby is Emmanuel, God With Us! The anticipation of the birth of Emmanuel is the season that Christians call Advent, which officially began on Sunday.I’ve come to rely on Christine Sine’s fresh take on Advent every year, and really through the whole Christian calendar.
By Kevin Singer and Chris Stackaruk
We all engage with people of other faiths and worldviews—the real question is whether we’re doing a good or bad job being a witness to Christ. Engaging badly and leaving a bad taste in someone’s mouth about Christ is not what Jesus calls us to.
By Stephen Mattson
To reject the truth that God loves and cares for immigrants and refugees is to deny God’s holy character. But affirming this truth requires many American Christians to renounce their political loyalties.
By Faith in Leadership
The Rev. Dr. Neichelle Guidry takes seriously her job as counselor, coach, motivator and model for young black women in in ministry and faith.
Guidry, who has been recognized as a national faith leader by publications like Time and Ebony, is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University and Yale Divinity School, and has a Ph.D.
CSA is thankful for your support as we work to make God’s love visible!
By Elrena Evans
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Reviewed by Aimee Fritz
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